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Using concept sketches for field trip wrap-up part of Structural Geology and Tectonics:Activities
Barb Tewksbury, Hamilton College
This is a post-field trip assignment in a structural geology course. Students create a set of concept sketches, with a short introduction, to illustrate the structural features and geologic history of the area, ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Field Activity, Project
Subject: Geoscience:Geology, Geology:Structural Geology:Microstructures, Deformation Mechanisms, Fabrics, Regional Structural/Tectonic Activity, Folds/Faults/Ductile Shear Zones, Geoscience:Geology:Tectonics
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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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

Virtual Reality Strike and Dip Tool part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2021:Program:Teaching Demonstrations
Natalie Bursztyn, University of Montana
The strike and dip tool is currently a web/desktop based virtual reality teaching instrument designed to practice taking strike and dip measurements and using those measurements to compile a geologic map. We have 5 ...

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Field Activity, Lab Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Structural Geology:Folds/Faults/Ductile Shear Zones

Recognizing and mapping faults using lidar and field data part of Structural Geology and Tectonics:Structure, Geophysics, and Tectonics 2012:Activities
Anne Egger, Central Washington University
In this activity, students create a geologic map and cross-section of the Fish Springs cinder cone and surrounding area in the Owens Valley, CA, using a high-resolution DEM developed from airborne lidar data as a ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory, College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity, Field Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Tectonics, Geophysics:Geodesy, Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Tectonic Geomorphology, Geoscience:Geology:Structural Geology:Folds/Faults/Ductile Shear Zones, Geoscience:Geology:Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology:Igneous Associations and Tectonic Settings
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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Student Field Guide part of Structural Geology and Tectonics:Structure, Geophysics, and Tectonics 2012:Activities
Katherine Boggs, Mount Royal University
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 ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity, Problem Set, Writing Assignment, Field Activity, Classroom Activity, Project
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Structural Geology:Microstructures, Deformation Mechanisms, Fabrics, Joints/Fractures, Folds/Faults/Ductile Shear Zones, Stress/Strain/Strain Analysis, Rheology/Behavior of Materials, Geoscience:Geology:Tectonics, Structural Geology:Regional Structural/Tectonic Activity, Modeling Structural Processes, Structural Visualizations, Geoscience:Geology:Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology:Igneous Associations and Tectonic Settings
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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Walking Field Trip to the San Andreas Fault part of Introductory Courses:Activities
Fred Winkler, CSUSB
Due to our University's unique location approximately one mile from the nearest trace of the San Andreas Fault, we are able to take students on a walking field trip to the San Andreas. On the trip we set the ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Field Activity:Field trip
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Structural Geology:Folds/Faults/Ductile Shear Zones, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Earthquakes, Geoscience:Geology:Tectonics
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Sunday Field Trip Leader part of Structural Geology and Tectonics:Structure, Geophysics, and Tectonics 2012:Activities
Bob Hatcher, The University of Tennessee
This field trip is one that I frequently take undergrad and grad students on, as well as other professionals and nongeologists. It is taylored to the audience. There are some superb teaching opportunities on the ...

Grade Level: Graduate/Professional, College Upper (15-16), General Public, College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Field Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Structural Geology:Structural Visualizations, Folds/Faults/Ductile Shear Zones, Rheology/Behavior of Materials
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Active Tectonics Field Trip part of Structural Geology and Tectonics:Structure, Geophysics, and Tectonics 2012:Activities
George Davis, University of Arizona
By far most field trips in structural geology and regional tectonics do NOT take place in large urban centers with a trip focus on mitigation of hazards. What is described here is an example of the instructional ...

Grade Level: Graduate/Professional, College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Field Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Structural Geology:Folds/Faults/Ductile Shear Zones, Regional Structural/Tectonic Activity, Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics, Tectonics
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Geologic Mapping and Geologic History: Sheep Mountain, Wyoming part of Structural Geology and Tectonics:Structure, Geophysics, and Tectonics 2012:Activities
Lawrence L. Malinconico, Lafayette College
Half way through the second semester of our year-long integrated Sed/Strat and Structure course we travel to Sheep Mountain, Wyoming where the students spend 5 days describing and measuring section and the ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Field Activity, Project, Writing Assignment
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Structural Geology:Regional Structural/Tectonic Activity, Structural Visualizations, Folds/Faults/Ductile Shear Zones, Stress/Strain/Strain Analysis, Modeling Structural Processes, Geoscience:Geology:Tectonics
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review