About this Project

This project aims to create a collection of undergraduate-level activities that use the Visible Geology toolkit to strengthen core geoscience skills and foster students' interests in the geosciences. The toolkit itself includes:

• A "Geology Explorer", which lets students layer historical geologic events and topography to see the effects of both the events themselves and their temporal ordering
• A stereonet tool which helps develop spatial reasoning skills when switching between 2 and 3-dimensional views
• An apparent dip simulator to understand how strike angle, true dip, apparent dip, and angle of the cut all relate

Check out some Seequent-produced instructional and demonstration videos:

Geology ExplorerStereonetsApparent Dip

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Project Goals

• Develop and disseminate a collection of evidence-based, interactive teaching activities that use the Visible Geology 3D modeling tools for undergraduate geoscience courses.
• Strengthen undergraduate students' geoscientific thinking, particularly spatial and temporal reasoning, to improve their ability to analyze and interpret complex geologic data.