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Caption: Course Catalog - 1898-1899
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204 GENERAL DESCRIPTION OP COURSES GEOLOGY i. GEOLOGY, MAJOR COURSE.—(a) Dynamic Geology. The in- struction given under this head is intended to familiarize the student with the forces now at work upon and within the earth's crust, modeling its reliefs, producing changes in the structure and composition of its rock masses and making deposits of minerals and ores. A series of localities is studied in *"\ich great surface changes have recently taken place, with a view to ascertaining the character of the forces producing such changes, and the physical evidence of the action of like forces in the past. The subject is taught by lectures, and is abundantly illustrated by maps, models, charts, and views. (b) Petrographic. This course is a continuation of Mineralogy 16 (p. 228), and deals with fragmental rocks in substantially the same manner as that does with crystallines. (c) Historical Geology. The work on this subject is substantially an introduction to the history of geology as a science. So far as may be done with the data in hand, an attempt is also made to trace the history of each geological period. (d). Paleontology. The scheme of instruction in this subject places before the student the classification adopted for those organic forms occurring as fossils, together with the succession of the various groups that occur in the strata, with the cause, as far as known, for their appearance and disappearance. The student is required to familiarize himself with selected groups of paleozoic fossils, abundant illustrations of which are placed in his hands. The subject is presented in lectures and demonstrations, each group being considered in connection with its nearest living representative. / / . ; daily; I and *; (5). (e) Economic Geology. The final term of this course is devoted to a study of the uses man may make of geologic materials, the con ditions under which these materials occur, and the qualities which render them valuable. The instruction is given by text and readings from the various state and government reports, transactions of societies, and monographs in which these subjects are treated, as well as by demonstrations with materials from the collections of the University. (14 weeks, 10 hours per week.) In dynamic and historical geology Dana's manual is used as a reference book, and in economic geology Tarr's Economic Geology of the United States. Petrography is pursued by means of a laboratory guide adapted from Rosenbusch, Zirkel. Roth, Teall, and others.
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