Teaching Structural Geology in the Field
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Field-Structure Teaching Activities
Browse all structural geology activities.
- Virtual Geological Mapping Field Trip - Glens of Tekoa, New Zealand
- Virtual Geologic Mapping Exercise at Lough Fee
- Reconnaissance stratigraphy and mapping of the Frying Pan Gulch, MT
- Sandy Hollow Virtual Field Geology Exercise
- Using concept sketches for field trip wrap-up
- Geologic Mapping Exercise
- Reconnaissance stratigraphy and mapping of the Frying Pan Gulch, MT
- Jurassic Quad Online Geologic Mapping Project
- Student Field Guide
- Recognizing and mapping faults using lidar and field data
- Aerial photo interpretation and mapping - Bayou Meda anticline, Arkansas
- Geologic Mapping and Geologic History: Sheep Mountain, Wyoming
- Active Tectonics Field Trip
- Mapping extensional crack arrays in asphalt as normal fault system physical analogues
- Mapping commingled magmas, Eastern Head of Isle Au Haut, Maine
- Outcrop Mapping at Woodall Shoals, South Carolina-Georgia
- Walking Field Trip to the San Andreas Fault
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.