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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Applied Geodynamics Laboratory Salt Tectonics Sandbox Animations part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This collection of salt tectonics sandbox animation movies done by Giovanni Guglielmo, and available at UT Austin website, can be used to illustrate concepts and processes in a structural geology ...

The structure and formation of mud volcano summit calderas part of SERC Print Resource Collection
Circular depressions bounded by inward-dipping faults found at the upper terminations of large mud volcano systems (greater than 500 m diameter) are termed 'mud volcano summit calderas'. ...

Structural Images part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This site is one of the stops on the Structural Geology Page maintained at Smith College by Tony Caldanaro. It has links to seven excellent collections of digital images useful in teaching structural ...

Field Notebook Sketches part of SERC Web Resource Collection

A "how to" for making field sketches with some picture to sketch examples. Excellent for students having their first field experiences.