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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