Combining Map and Cross Section Results into a 3-D Model
Hannah Blatchford, Eastern Michigan University
This activity is designed to show students that geologic maps and cross-sections are each two-dimensional views of the same three-dimensional structure and that they must therefore agree. Students develop a ...

Exploring Fold Interference Patterns Using Visible Geology
Andrew Laskowski, Montana State University
This activity uses the Visible Geology web-based application, which includes interactive 3D modeling tools to help students visualize and recreate complex fold interference patterns resulting from superposed ...

Basin Stratigraphic Correlation
Amy Weislogel, West Virginia University
This lab activity allows students to examine a basin-scale simulation of Appalachian stratigraphy and examine the variation in strata represented in drill cores that would result across the basin. Students use this ...

Analyzing Plunging Folds Using Stereonets and 3D Modeling in Visible Geology
Andrew Laskowski, Montana State University
This hybrid activity integrates manual or digital stereonet techniques with Visible Geology's 3D modeling tools to analyze and reverse-engineer the geometry of a plunging antiformal fold. It expands on a ...

How geologic beds and other planar features interact with topography: Rule of V's
Alyssa Abbey, California State University-Long Beach
This activity helps students learn about how planar features, such as faults and bedding contacts interact with topography. Students explore various topographic map patterns, then focus on how bedding contacts ...

Folds, Cross-sections, & Apparent dip (Post Field Trip Data Analysis)
Alyssa Abbey, California State University-Long Beach
This activity helps students conceptualize structures seen in the field and create 3D models from collected field data. Students learn about converting apparent dips to true dips using a Stereonet in the case of ...

Reservoir Sandstone Stratigraphic Correlation
Amy Weislogel, West Virginia University
This lab activity allows students to integrate sedimentologic data with stratigraphic models they create in the Visible Geology web-based application to characterize deposits along a transect of an ancient delta. ...

Exploring relationships between map patterns and stereonets of cylindrically folded layers
Hannah Blatchford, Eastern Michigan University
This activity utilizes the Geology Explorer and Stereonet modules of Visible Geology to help students understand how map patterns of folded stratigraphy are related to their corresponding stereograms. Students ...

Faults: normal, reverse and strike-slip
Henry Hoult and Kate Pedley University of Canterbury, School of Earth and Environment
This workflow uses Visible Geology to show to use the displacement of layers across different types of faults and assess their direction of motion, anticipating what kinds of tectonic forces are responsible.

Geological layers: Superposition, tilted beds and strike and dip
Henry Hoult and Kate Pedley University of Canterbury, School of Earth and Environment
This workflow uses Visible Geology to show how the law of superposition can be applied to identify the youngest and oldest rocks in a layered sequence, identify the strike and dip of a tilted planar surface, and ...

Topography and contour lines: the shape of a surface
Henry Hoult and Kate Pedley University of Canterbury, School of Earth and Environment
This workflow uses Visible Geology to understand what contour lines represent on a topographic map and to use contour lines on a 2D map to anticipate the 3D topography of a surface.

Folds 1: limbs, hinges and planes
Henry Hoult and Kate Pedley University of Canterbury, School of Earth and Environment
This workflow uses Visible Geology to explore and visualise key fold characteristics and be able to classify them in 3D space.

Rule of Vs: interaction between a planar feature and a 3D object
Henry Hoult, University of Geneva
This workflow uses Visible Geology to show how tilted/dipping beds will outcrop at the surface depending on the topography. The rule of v's is explored by changing the tilt angle of beds and concave vs. convex ...