Digital resources

This collection of digital resources includes web sites that can be useful for teaching and learning structural geology at the undergraduate level.


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Exploring the Grand Canyon, USA Virtual Field Trip part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This immersive virtual field trip provides the opportunity to explore the geology of the Grand Canyon, via a virtual field trip. Users can explore the immersive field trip on their own or take a ...

Structural Geology e-learning modules part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This website provides a set of e-learning modules to supplement the Structural Geology textbook written by Haakon Fossen. It has numerous animations and other learning resources.

Shear zones and crustal blocks of southern India part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This volume is a collection of papers on the shearing and petrological evolution of southern India. It can be used to introduce students to the granulite/upper amphibolite facies rocks. Proceedings ...

The importance of spatial thinking for geoscience education: Insights from the crossroads of geoscience and cognitive science part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This paper uses "a day in the life of a field geologist" as a means to explore the spatial skills used by geoscientists on a regular basis, the cognitive skills that ...

Visible Geology: an interactive visualization program for creating and exploring geologic block models part of SERC Web Resource Collection

Visible Geology is an interactive visualization program where you can create and explore your own geologic block models. The goal of the program is to allow a learning environment that, with the ...

PPP Kinamatic Solution for the Great Tohoku Earthquake, M9.0 part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This website features animations that show coordinate variations every 1 sec. relative to the pre-earthquake a priori coordinates from the March 2011 Japan earthquake. There are four animation movie ...

Honshu Mw=9 Earthquake 11 March 2011 part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This web page, from CIRES, provides information, diagrams, and movies related to the March 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami. These visualizations include mechanisms behind the earthquake and tsunami ...

USArray GMV for Near East Coast OF Honshu, Japan Event part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This site, from EarthScope, features a groundmotion movie (Quicktime) of North American crust nearly 6 minutes after the terrible Japan earthquake.

Photos of structural geology part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This page contains four categories of structural geology photos: brittle structures, ductile structures, active tectonics, and unconformities. All photos are freely downloadable and are at ...

Geology photo search page part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This page contains a search engine to locate specific photos by keyword. All photos are freely downloadable and are at resolutions sufficient for power point.