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2026-12239-172 Earth Science Field Skills / Aardwetenskap-veldvaardighede - 172

Facilitator: AMY Allwright
Facilitator: Jan Hofmeyr De Waal
Facilitator: Susanne Fietz
Facilitator: René Heyn
Facilitator: Alexander Kisters
Facilitator: Martin Bromann Klausen
Facilitator: Matthew Jason Mayne
Facilitator: Alakendra Narayan Roychoudhury
Facilitator: Gary Stevens Stevens
Facilitator: Ryan Tucker
Facilitator: Bjorn Phillip Von der Heyden

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Discussion Forum | Gespreksforum

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PRE-CLASS QUIZ: Minerals

QUIZ: Mineral identification (online)

COMPULSORY FIELD TRIP: Introduction to mineral identification (Sat 22 Feb)

PRE-FIELD TRIP QUIZ: Minerals in rocks

TUTORIAL CLASS: Thu 27 March

PRE-CLASS QUIZ: Topographic maps

CLASS ASSIGNMENT: Map elements and map reading

Questions?

FIELD TRIP (All students): Fundamentals of hydrothermal fluids (Sat 22 April)

Assignment Handin

FIELD TRIP: Catchment to Coast (Sa 8 March)

FIELD TRIP QUIZ: Catchment to Coast

Field Trip - Plastics on the beach 09 May 2024 (Fietz)

FIELD TRIP: Intro into Air and Freshwater Chemistry - 06 September (Fietz)

FIELD TRIP: In-Situ or Not - Eden Forest to Stellenbosch Mtn (Sa 22 April)

TUTORIAL CLASS: Introduction to Hydrogeology - 31 July (Allwright)

Assignment - G172 Intro to Hydro

FIELDTRIP: Introduction to Hydro(geology) - 2 August (Allwright)

Assignment - Fieldtrip - Intro to Hydro

TUTORIAL CLASS: Introduction to metamorphic rock identification (Mayne)

Pre Tutorial Quiz: Intro to metamorphic rock identification

CLASS ASSIGNMENT: Metamorphic rock identification

Post Tutorial Quiz: Intro to metamorphic rock identification

Metamorphic Field Trip: Sea Point Contact - 20 September 2025

Pre-field trip quiz Metamorphic contacts Sea Point

Upload of Field Notebook

Post-field trip quiz Metamorphic contacts Sea Point

FIELD TRIP: Water bottling plant tour (Chow) - Sat 5 Aug

Field trip worksheet

Water bottling plant quiz

TUTORIAL CLASS: Climate Change and Carbon Cycle (Fietz) - Thursday 10 Oct

Assignment - Carbon Cycle and Climate Change

TUTORIAL CLASS: Climate Change - Thu 29 February (Prof. Roychoudhury)

Climate Change Assignment

TUTORIAL CLASS: Introduction to the hydrologic cycle with a groundwater focus (Chow) - Thursday, 3rd of August

Hydro(geo)logy Worksheet

Hydro(geo)logy quiz

TUTORIAL CLASS: Economic Geology - 24 Feb 2022

Fe Ore Quiz

TUTORIAL CLASS: Introduction to igneous rock identification (Klausen) - Thu 7 May

TUTORIAL CLASS: Mapping with & without a GPS (Tucker) - Thu 04 June

VIRTUAL FIELD CLASS: Introduction to field work (Klausen) - 10 - 19 Aug

COMBINED TUTORIAL AND FIELD CLASS: Hydrogeology and Groundwater (Miller) - Thu 20 Aug - Wed 2 Sept

Hydrogeology Assessment Quiz

Groundwater Depletion and the TMG Aquifer

Cape Flats Aquifer System

VIRTUAL FIELD CLASS: False Bay granites (Stevens) - 21 - 30 Sept

TUTORIAL CLASS: Thu 1 - Thu 8 Oct

PRE-ASSIGNMENT QUIZ: Erosion, weathering and soil

ASSIGNMENT: Erosion, weathering and soil

Questions?

VIRTUAL FIELD CLASS: Table Mountain Group (Heyn) - 12 - 19 Oct

ASSIGNMENT: Virtual field exercise

Questions?

TUTORIAL CLASS: Municipal water works (De Waal)- 19 - 28 Oct

WWTW Assignment -DUE 31 OCT 2020

Computer programming and data analysis

Computer programming assignment upload

Post tutorial quiz

Selection of the compulsory field trip date

Selection of compulsory field trip/class exercises

Selection of elective field trips

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