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University of Wisconsin-Madison students at an outcrop during a field trip to Baraboo, WI.

Provenance: Basil Tikoff, University of Wisconsin - Madison
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Teaching Structural Geology in the Field

Field-Structure Teaching Activities

Browse all structural geology activities.

• Using Field Lab Write-ups to Develop Observational and Critical Thinking Skills
  
• Analysis of Sidewalk Fractures
  
• Mapping extensional crack arrays in asphalt as normal fault system physical analogues
  
• Introduction to Digital Mapping with a PocketPC
  
• Walking Field Trip to the San Andreas Fault
  
• Field Trip Comics
  
• Campus Mapping Tour
  
• Assessing the error of linear and planar field data using Fisher statistics
  
• Outcrop Mapping at Woodall Shoals, South Carolina-Georgia
  
• Structural and bedrock mapping along the York Rd, Lewis and Clark County, Montana
  
• Integrated Field Project in Structural Geology and Sedimentology/Stratigraphy
  
• Aerial photo interpretation and mapping - Bayou Meda anticline, Arkansas
  
• Mapping commingled magmas, Eastern Head of Isle Au Haut, Maine
  
• Coyote Creek Geologic Map
  
• Geologic mapping
  
• Mentally Visualizing Large Geologic Structures from Field Observations: A Behavioral Study
  
• Petrology/Geochemistry/Mineralogy/Structure of Shear zones in St. Lawrence County
  

RSS

Structure in the Field

Integration of Field and Laboratory Exercises into a One-Year Sed/Strat and Structure Course Leading to a Capstone Field Mapping Project (PowerPoint 11.2MB Aug16 10)
Larry Malinconico and David Sunderlin, Lafayette College
Teaching Geoscience in the Field 2010

Geology of the Maine Coast by Sea Kayak: a field methods course (PowerPoint 4.9MB Aug14 10)
Dykstra Eusden, Bates College
Teaching Geoscience in the Field 2010

A Field Mapping Exercise to Emphasize the Interpretive Nature of Bedrock Geologic Maps in Glaciated Terranes (Acrobat (PDF) 11.1MB Aug24 10)
Jim Miller, University of Minnesota Duluth
Teaching Geoscience in the Field 2010

Measurement of compass orientations of rock fractures
Thomas W. Oesleby, Northwest College
Using Field Observations and Experiences to Teach Geoscience 2004

Field Guides and Databases

The NAGT Field Trip Collection contains more than 50 field trips and examples. The examples in this collection share information about the design of the trips and their important characteristics in addition to providing easy access to field guides. In addition, you can find information for teaching in the field in these other collections:

• Field Trip Safety: This page in the Cutting Edge Teaching in the Field module presents guidance and example policies and forms for addressing safety concerns when taking geoscience students into the field to learn.
  
• The Montana-Yellowstone Geologic Field Guide Database - The Montana-Yellowstone Geologic Field Guide Database is a pilot project for making the field guide literature more accessible and useful to geoscience educators, students, and researchers. While the database is not an exhaustive listing of every published field guide, nor does it provide direct links to the full text of each reference (except for a few unpublished field guides which are reproduced as pdf files), the database is a fully-searchable listing of 50 of the best references for exploring the geology of this fascinating region.
• NAGT's Far West Section Publications
• Field Guides - Illustrated field guides for sites near Bozeman and Big Sky, MT.
• Geologic Guidebooks of North America Database: This database from AGI and the Geoscience Information Society contains bibliographic references and location for published field guides.
• The University of Texas at Austin has compiled a substantial e-library of field trip guides (more info) on their Walter Geology Library website.