Katherine Boggs

Earth Sciences

Mount Royal University

Workshop Participant, Website Contributor, Reviewer

Website Content Contributions

Activities (3)

Student Field Guide part of Structural Geology and Tectonics:Structure, Geophysics, and Tectonics 2012:Activities
This activity was inspired by the "Pet Rock" project of Daryl Henry. I developed this activity to be a capstone experience for our students. During the fall 4th year field trip, students are responsible ...

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Lake Louise Field Project part of Structural Geology and Tectonics:Structure, Geophysics, and Tectonics 2012:Activities
During a fall field trip in second year, students measure bedding, cleavage, fold axes and bedding-cleavage intersection lineations. These measurements are used throughout the fall term to introduce the stereonet, ...

Google Earth Introduction to Canadian Cordillera part of Structural Geology and Tectonics:Structure, Geophysics, and Tectonics 2012:Activities
This exercise is intended to: i) give students an introduction to Google Earth, ii) guide the students through various geological structures using Google Earth, and iii) serve as an introduction to the key features ...

Course (1)

Structural Geology part of Structural Geology and Tectonics:Structure, Geophysics, and Tectonics 2012:Courses
This is a typical introductory course to Structural Geology. Because the course is small, I'm able to interweave lecture and labs and also to take the group on a weekend field trip through the Canadian ...

Other Contributions (3)

EarthsCAN a Bridge from Earthscope into the Future part of Structural Geology and Tectonics:2016 Structure and Tectonics Forum:Abstracts
Katherine Boggs, Mount Royal University North America has had > 30 years of continuous large innovative geoscience research programs – COCORP, Lithoprobe (1984 to 2004), Earthscope (2004 to ~2019) and now ...

"The Bridge" from Earthscope to EarthsCAN part of Structural Geology and Tectonics:2016 Structure and Tectonics Forum:Abstracts
Katherine Boggs, Mount Royal University Maurice Colpron, Yukon Geological Survey Julie Elliot, Purdue University Roy Hyndman, Pacific Geoscience Centre (GSC), University of Victoria Kristin Morell, University of ...

A Structure for Mastering Stereonets for Structural Geology part of Structural Geology and Tectonics:2014 Structure and Tectonics Forum Abstracts
Katherine Boggs, Mount Royal University Student voice, exam marks and participant reported confidence levels were used here to propose a model for guiding novice student acquisition of the spatial cognition skills ...