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2025 (Current Year) Faculty Courses School of Science Undergraduate major in Earth and Planetary Sciences

Field Excursion

Academic unit or major
Undergraduate major in Earth and Planetary Sciences
Instructor(s)
Kenji Ohta / Shintaro Azuma
Class Format
Exercise/Experiment (Face-to-face)
Media-enhanced courses
-
Day of week/Period
(Classrooms)
3-4 Wed (理学院 地球惑星科学系石川台2号館318室)
Class
-
Course Code
EPS.L220
Number of credits
013
Course offered
2025
Offered quarter
3-4Q
Syllabus updated
Mar 19, 2025
Language
Japanese

Syllabus

Course overview and goals

To understand processes in Earth and planetary sciences, student will observe geology in the field and visit foreign research institutes. Before the field trip, students will study geological background of the field and writing a guide book of the field excursion. The field trip will be performed in foreign country (e.g., North America, Hawaii, etc). The students will discuss with the researchers in the foreign University/Institutes.

Course description and aims

It is important to observe geological phenomena in the field not only in Japan for understanding global scale geology. For this purpose, students will learn geology in their own eyes directly in the field. Students will acquire the method to reveal geological phenomena based on the observation in the field. Also, students will understand how earth scientists work through the discussions with foreign researchers and by communication with foreign students.

Keywords

Earth and Planetary Science, Field Geology

Competencies

  • Specialist skills
  • Intercultural skills
  • Communication skills
  • Critical thinking skills
  • Practical and/or problem-solving skills

Class flow

To be announced. The plan below is an example of previous course, though the contents will be changed depending on conditions and states of preparations for excursions.

Course schedule/Objectives

Course schedule Objectives
Class 1

Guidance of the field excursion

Plate tectonics and volcanism

Class 2

Writing a guide book of the field excursion 1

Geology of North America

Class 3

Writing a guide book of the field excursion 2

History of the Earth

Class 4

Writing a guide book of the field excursion 3

Meteorite and Cosmochemistry

Class 5

Presentaion

Presentation by each group, Q&A

Class 6

Field Trip (The following is a schedule in FY2022)

Field excursion

Class 7

1. Meteo Creator

Meteorite Impcat

Class 8

2. Colorado Plateau

Geology of Colorado Plateau

Class 9

3. Grand Canyon

Stratigraphy of Grand Canyon Supergroup

Class 10

4. Death Valley

Tectonics of divergent plate boundary

Class 11

5. San Andreas Fault

Transform plate boundary and its earthquake

Study advice (preparation and review)

To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend a certain length of time outside of class on preparation and review (including for assignments), as specified by the Institute of Science Tokyo Rules on Undergraduate Learning (東京科学大学学修規程), for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.

Textbook(s)

Literature search will be performed by students.

Reference books, course materials, etc.

To be announced depending on individual research theme

Evaluation methods and criteria

Student performance will be assessed by presentation before the field trip and by report after the trip.

Related courses

  • EPS.L205 : Laboratory in Earth and Planetary Sciences (field geology)
  • EPS.L202 : Laboratory in Earth and Planetary Sciences (petrology)
  • EPS.A205 : Introduction to Earth Sciences

Prerequisites

None