Obsidian Dome Outcrop Tour part of Teach the Earth:Magma Labs
Jessica Larsen, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Virtual outcrop tour of a part of Obsidian dome in California. This Google Earth based tour shows photos and outcrop/process descriptions of the different lithologies in the Obsidian dome in Eastern California. ...

Visualizing Earthquakes at Convergent Plate Margins part of Visualization:Examples
Cara Harwood, University of California-Davis
In this activity students visualize the distribution and magnitude of earthquakes at convergent plate boundaries. Earthquakes are visualized on a 3D globe, making it easy to see their distribution within ...

Primary Structures and Rotation part of Spatial Thinking Workbook:Teaching Activities
Carol Ormand Ph.D., Carleton College
Students gesture the orientations of cross-bedded sandstones, and in particular the relationship between a single cross bed and the bed sets. They do this for photos of undeformed and deformed cross-bedding.

Thin-Skinned Models for Undergraduate Teaching Labs – "Flour Structures part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
Dan Davis, SUNY at Stony Brook
The lab described here a simple, inexpensive way for an undergraduate class to create model thin-skinned wedges A simple model using flour and marker chalk, pushed across the base of a box using a piece of wood, ...

Three-Point Problem by Simultaneous Linear Equations part of Quantitative Skills:Activity Collection
William Frangos, James Madison University
Students are introduced to the use of linear algebra in an intuitive and accessible way, through classroom activity and homework set. The familiar three-point problem is cast in terms of three dimensional analytic geometry, fostering understanding of mathematical models for simple geometric forms.

Mapping commingled magmas, Eastern Head of Isle Au Haut, Maine part of Geoscience in the Field:Activities
Dykstra Eusden, Bates College
This is a week-long bedrock mapping project on Isle Au Haut, in Penobscot Bay, Maine, with three to four field days followed by 1-2 lab days. The bedrock is Silurian gabbro and granite that commingled in a magma ...

Aerial photo interpretation and mapping - Bayou Meda anticline, Arkansas part of Geoscience in the Field:Activities
Jamey Jones, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Multi-day project using aerial photography and field observation to map and interpret a megascopic anticline/syncline pair exposed in the Ouachita Mountains of central Arkansas. This exercise involves two classroom ...

Outcrop Mapping at Woodall Shoals, South Carolina-Georgia part of Geoscience in the Field:Activities
Jonathan Mies, The University of Tennessee-Chattanooga
Students work in groups of 3 or 4 to map relatively small parts of the outcrop at Woodall Shoals, which serves as a model of a complexly deformed high-grade metamorphic terrain. With the benefits of 100% exposure ...

Course Information Survey part of Online Teaching:Activities for Teaching Online
Donald Reed, San Jose State University
This activity is a brief quiz to be completed at beginning of course that provides information to instructor about the internet access and computer resources of each student as well as assesses whether student has ...

Structural Geometry from Outcrop Patterns part of Visualization:Examples
Charles Onasch, Bowling Green State University-Main Campus
Using Google Earth, students will investigate the relationship between the geometry of rock bodies and their outcrop patterns.