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College Lower (13-14)
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Geoscience > Geology > Sedimentary Geology > Sedimentary Structures
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Spatial Thinking Workbook

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Primary Structures and Rotation part of Spatial Thinking Workbook:Teaching Activities
Carol Ormand Ph.D., Carleton College
Students gesture the orientations of cross-bedded sandstones, and in particular the relationship between a single cross bed and the bed sets. They do this for photos of undeformed and deformed cross-bedding.

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16)
Online Readiness: Designed for In-Person
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity:Short Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Structural Geology, Sedimentary Geology:Sedimentary Structures
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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Slicing Channels part of Spatial Thinking Workbook:Teaching Activities
Tom Hickson, University of St. Thomas (MN)
Students examine 3D channel-shaped objects and 2D slices through those objects. The purpose is to get them thinking about how the 3D geometry of a channel is reduced to a random 2D slice through the channel in a typical outcrop, so that they can recognize channel deposits.

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Problem Set
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Sediment Transport and Deposition, Depositional environments:Continental, Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Stratigraphy, Sedimentary Structures, Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks:Clastics
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Sketching 3D Ripples and Dunes part of Spatial Thinking Workbook:Teaching Activities
Tom Hickson, University of St. Thomas (MN)
Students watch a video of the instructor sketching 3D ripples, then practice sketching 3D bedforms, both as seen by the viewer and as annotated 3D block diagrams.

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Problem Set
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Sediment Transport and Deposition, Sedimentary Structures
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review