Using Field Labs part of Field Labs
Written by Mary Savina of Carleton College Students love field labs! They enjoy being outside and they appreciate the fact that geoscience field labs are unusually tactile and bring them into contact with real, ...

Floodplains part of Field Labs:Field Lab Examples
In this lab, students measure a topographic and geologic cross-section across a floodplain by simple surveying and auguring techniques. -

"Adopt an Outcrop" part of Field Labs:Field Lab Examples
Describing rock outcrops and hand specimens -

Building-Stone Geology part of Field Labs:Field Lab Examples
Students in an area remote from igneous and metamorphic rocks wrote papers on the properties of locally used building stones and gave a walking tour in which they presented their results. -

Post-settlement landscape evolution part of Field Labs:Field Lab Examples
Use valley and slope deposits to reconstruct recent landscape erosion and sedimentation history. -

Aquifers in outcrop part of Field Labs:Field Lab Examples
Students describe the hydrogeologic properties of different sedimentary and volcanic rocks. -

Pump Test part of Field Labs:Field Lab Examples
Students run a pump test and interpret the results as drawdown curves and hydraulic conductivity measurements. -

Cemetery Geology part of Field Labs:Field Lab Examples
Studying rock types, weathering processes and human history in a cemetery. -

Glacial geology in the field part of Field Labs:Field Lab Examples
Students describe and interpret glacial features exposed in gravel pits and outcrops. -

Soils are the pits part of Field Labs:Field Lab Examples
describing soils in natural exposures -