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Sedimentation Provenance Problem Set part of Sedimentary Geology:Activities
Man-Yin Tsang, University of Toronto
Introduce students the concept of Sedimentation Provenance and how it can be studied from rock samples. Teach students to visualize mineral distributions in a basin and draw ternary QFR (quartz-feldspar-rock ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory, College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Problem Set
Subject: Geoscience:Geology, Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Provenance, Techniques of Sedimentary Geology, Sediment Transport and Deposition, Depositional environments
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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Using StraboSpot for Field Sedimentology & Stratigraphy part of Cutting Edge:Enhance Your Teaching:Teaching with Online Field Experiences:Activities
Casey J. Duncan, New Mexico State University
This module uses StraboSpot (free mobile app for iOS and Android devices and web API, backend database) and two Utah datasets to facilitate teaching field methods related to sedimentology and stratigraphy. The data ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16)
Online Readiness: Online Ready
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Virtual Field Trip, Lab Activity, Field Activity, Project
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks, Techniques of Sedimentary Geology, Stratigraphy
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

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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Learning About Marine Sediments Using Real Data part of Introductory Courses:Activities
Kristen St. John, James Madison University
This exercise set explores marine sediments using real core photos and composition data from the scientific ocean drilling programs DSDP, ODP, and IODP in an inquiry-based approach.

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
Online Readiness: Online Ready
Resource Type: Activities: Activities, Lab Activity, Classroom Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Techniques of Sedimentary Geology, Depositional environments:Deep Marine Environment, Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Sediment Transport and Deposition, Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks, Geoscience:Oceanography:Physical , Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics, Geoscience:Oceanography:Marine Geology and Geophysics
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Fluvial and Alluvial Sedimentology Incorporating Google Earth part of Sedimentary Geology:Activities
Elizabeth Cassel, University of Idaho
A lab activity for an undergraduate sedimentary geology course focused on fluvial and alluvial sedimentology, incorporating Google Earth.

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Activities: Audio/Visual:Maps, Computer Applications, Activities:Lab Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Techniques of Sedimentary Geology, Sediment Transport and Deposition, Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks, Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landscape Evolution, Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Depositional environments, Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes
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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

Sediments and the Global Carbon Cycle part of Sedimentary Geology:Activities
Lonnie Leithold, North Carolina State University
This is a series of exercises designed to introduce undergraduate students to the role of sediments and sedimentary rocks in the global carbon cycle and the use of stable carbon isotopes to reconstruct ancient ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Depositional environments, Geoscience:Geology:Geochemistry:Stable Isotopes, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Diagenesis, Techniques of Sedimentary Geology, Environmental Science:Ecosystems:Biogeochemical cycling, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Paleoclimate records, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Paleoclimate records, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review, Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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Digital Sandstone Tutorial part of Sedimentary Geology:Activities
Kitty Milliken, The University of Texas at Austin
The Tutorial Petrographic Image Atlas is designed to give students more exposure to petrographic features than they can get during organized laboratory periods.

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14):College Introductory, Graduate/Professional
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Diagenesis, Weathering, Provenance, Sedimentary Textures , Techniques of Sedimentary Geology
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
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A Traverse Through Time and Space: A Paleoenvironmental Analysis of Devonian Strata in New York State part of Geoscience in the Field:Activities
Tara Curtin, Hobart William Smith Colleges
This is a field-based mini-project that requires students to synthesize their field data to 1) determine the depositional environments both across New York State (from the Catskills, NY to Rochester, NY) during ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Field Activity, Lab Activity, Project
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Techniques of Sedimentary Geology, Geoscience:Paleontology:Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction , Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology, Geoscience:Geology
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review