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Reconnaissance stratigraphy and mapping of the Frying Pan Gulch, MT part of Cutting Edge:Enhance Your Teaching:Teaching with Online Field Experiences:Activities
Sinan Akciz, California State University-Fullerton
Students are required to create a reconnaissance geologic map and report for a small area (approximately 0.5 sq. mile) Frying Pan Gulch just NW of Dillon, Montana. This project is designed to make students familiar ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16)
Online Readiness: Online Ready
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Field Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Stratigraphy, Sedimentary Structures, Techniques of Sedimentary Geology, Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks, Geoscience:Geology:Tectonics, Sedimentary Geology:Sedimentary Textures , Geoscience:Geology:Structural Geology:Regional Structural/Tectonic Activity, Folds/Faults/Ductile Shear Zones
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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Reconnaissance stratigraphy and mapping of the Frying Pan Gulch, MT part of Teaching Activities
Sinan Akciz, California State University-Fullerton
Students are required to create a reconnaissance geologic map and report for a small area (approximately 0.5 sq. mile) Frying Pan Gulch just NW of Dillon, Montana. This project is designed to make students familiar ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16)
Online Readiness: Online Ready
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Field Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Stratigraphy, Sedimentary Structures, Techniques of Sedimentary Geology, Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks, Geoscience:Geology:Tectonics, Sedimentary Geology:Sedimentary Textures , Geoscience:Geology:Structural Geology:Regional Structural/Tectonic Activity, Folds/Faults/Ductile Shear Zones
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Bedforms to Facies to Prediction: Walther's Law and Sequence Stratigraphic Analysis, Blackhawk Formation, Utah part of Sedimentary Geology:Activities
Tom Morris, Brigham Young University
This field exercise challenges students to apply their knowledge of bedforms to interpret facies within a vertical section of the Blackhawk Formation, Utah. The students draft a vertical succession of the outcrop ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Field Activity:Field laboratories, Activities:Field Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Sedimentary Structures, Stratigraphy, Depositional environments, Sedimentary Textures , Facies and Facies Models
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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Bedform mapping in a coastal environment part of Sedimentary Geology:Activities
Peter Lea, Bowdoin College
Students use a learning cycle of prediction-observation- comparison to investigate diverse bedforms exposed at low tide at a beach/inlet/tidal-delta complex and to relate them to formative flows.

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Field Activity, Field Activity:Importation of field observations into the classroom, Field trip
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Sediment Transport and Deposition, Depositional environments, Sedimentary Structures
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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Virtual Field Trip to the Book Cliffs part of Sedimentary Geology:Activities
Ann Holmes, The University of Tennessee-Chattanooga
Problem-based learning techniques have been applied to geological datasets collected and published about the Cretaceous Book Cliffs exposures in Utah.

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16)
Online Readiness: Online Ready
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Project, Field Activity:Importation of field observations into the classroom, Activities:Virtual Field Trip
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Stratigraphy, Sedimentary Structures, Depositional environments, Diagenesis, Sediment Transport and Deposition, Facies and Facies Models, Sedimentary Textures , Techniques of Sedimentary Geology
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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Use of a Lab-Field Couplet to Link Rock Classification and Facies Interpretation part of Sedimentary Geology:Activities
Allison Tumarkin-Deratzian, Temple University
Students examine hand samples in the lab, then describe formations and interpret facies succession at a local outcrop. Linked lab and field components doubly reinforce understanding of course concepts.

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Field Activity, Lab Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Sedimentary Structures, Facies and Facies Models, Sedimentary Textures , Depositional environments
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Designing a sedimentary geology course around field-based class projects that yield publishable research part of Sedimentary Geology:Activities
James Ebert, SUNY College at Oneonta
Field-based research projects can be the heart of a course in sedimentary geology. Course content, organization, readings and laboratory experiences are dictated by the nature of the specific project. Less content ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Activities: Course Information, Activities:Field Activity, Project
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Stratigraphy, Sedimentary Structures, Depositional environments, Facies and Facies Models, Techniques of Sedimentary Geology, Sedimentary Textures , Provenance
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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Designing Sedimentary Geology Courses Around Field Projects With Realistic Scenarios part of Sedimentary Geology:Activities
Bosiljka Glumac, Smith College
Sedimentary geology courses can be structured around field projects that take advantage of the local geology and are placed within realistic situations to demonstrate the relevance of the work that sedimentologists ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Project, Field Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Sedimentary Structures, Stratigraphy, Depositional environments, Sedimentary Textures , Facies and Facies Models
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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New Approaches to field-based analysis of stratigraphic sections part of Sedimentary Geology:Activities
Paul Myrow, Colorado College
This is a field-based project that is designed to teach students how to interpret processes of deposition and paleoenvironments from outcrop.

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Writing Assignment, Project, Field Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Stratigraphy, Sedimentary Structures, Depositional environments, Facies and Facies Models, Sediment Transport and Deposition, Sedimentary Textures , Techniques of Sedimentary Geology
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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Erosion and deposition in modern and ancient streams part of Early Career:Previous Workshops:Workshop 2010:Teaching Activities
Lisa Tranel, Illinois State University
This activity is designed to link how modern day processes are preserved in the rock record. It provides the opportunity to directly compare similar settings. It is an opportunity to practice observation skills and ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Field Activity:Importation of field observations into the classroom, Activities:Classroom Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Sediment Transport and Deposition, Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks:Clastics , Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Techniques of Sedimentary Geology, Sedimentary Structures