EPSc 446  (Spring 2008)     STABLE ISOTOPE GEOCHEMISTRY       Criss

TOPIC 1:  ISOTOPIC ABUNDANCES AND FRACTIONATION
1)       1/14       Organizational Meeting; Discovery of Isotopes;  Abundances & Atomic Weights
2)       1/16       Fractionation of Isotopic Molecules                                                                                          
3)       1/18       Mass Spectrometers; Material Balance
          1/21       MLK holiday:No class
4)       1/23       Mass Spectrometer Lab #1                                                                                                                 
5)       1/25       Notation & Standards; Recitation HW #1

TOPIC 2:  ISOTOPIC EXCHANGE & EQUILIBRIUM FRACTIONATION
6)       1/28       Isotopic Exchange Reactions & Classical Thermodynamics
7)       1/30       Fundamental Relationships
8)       2/1         Molecular Models
9)       2/4         Theory of Isotopic Fractionation
10)     2/6         Rule of the Mean; Isotopic Geothermometers     
11)     2/8         ditto
12)     2/11       Recitation:   HW 2
13)     2/13       Mass Spectrometer Lab #2
14)     2/15       EXAM I

TOPIC 3:  ISOTOPE HYDROLOGY
15)     2/18       D & 18O in Natural Waters; Meteoric Waters
16)     2/20       Rayleigh Fractionation
17)     2/22       Paleowaters, Ice Cores, Climatology
18)     2/25       Streamflow & Groundwater
19)     2/27       River Chemistry
20)     2/29       Formation Waters

TOPIC 4:  NONEQUILIBRIUM FRACTIONATION & ISOTOPE TRANSPORT
21)     3/3         Isotopic Exchange Kinetics
22)     3/5         Mass Spectrometer Lab #3
23)     3/7         MGA/no class
          3/10 -16 Spring Break
24)     3/17       Evaporation; Evaporation Contd./Material Balance
25)     3/19       Lake Balance; Isotopic Flux;
26)     3/21       Recitation:   HW 3, 4

TOPIC 5:  IGNEOUS ROCKS,  METEORITES, AND FLUID-ROCK INTERACTIONS
27)     3/24     
28)     3/26     O & H Isotope Geochemistry of Rocks
29)     3/28     Igneous Rocks: Primary Crystallization, AFC
30)     3/31     Igneous Rocks: Closed Systems
31)     4/2       Closed & Open Systems
32)     4/4       EXAM II
33)     4/7       Open Systems; Water/Rock Interactions
34)     4/9       Idaho Batholith, Hydrothermal Systems
35)     4/11     Stratovolcanoes, Meteoric-Hydrothermal Systems
36)     4/14     Extraterrestrial O & H Compositions; Meteorites
37)     4/16     Isotopic Anomalies; Recititation:   HW 5
 
TOPIC 6:  STUDENT PROJECTS
38)     4/18       Liz       
39)     4/21       Steve  
40)     4/23       Randy   
40)     4/25       Jason          Last Class