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Notes and Links
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Topographic Maps
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strongly recommended--much better explanation
than lab manual
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Dolomite Quadrangle (PDF) (CAUTION: BIG FILE--8.6 M
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2
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Plate Tectonics
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Nothing Yet---Send suggestions. What would you like to see?
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3
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Rock Deformation & Mountain Building
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4
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Earthquakes & Seismology
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Here are two different graphics that illustrate how to find the epicenter distance
using the travel time curves.
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5
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Minerals
To see pictures of minerals use the Google
advanced image search. Enter the name of the mineral in the "related to
exact phrase" field for a particular mineral, or in the "related to all
of the words" for multiple minerals.
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The web site for Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History listed
in the lab manual on page 49 has changed. The new link is http://www.gimizu.de/sgmcol/
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These sites help in visualizing the overall look of minerals
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Here are some sites that help with identification of minerals
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Amethyst Gallerie's Mineral Gallery Pay
special attention to the fram on the left that has listings of minerals by name,
class, groupings, and a keyword search.
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General Descriptions with great links to other sites. A complete guide to many
aspects of minerals (and rocks)
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6
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Volcanoes
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Links to Volcano Web Sites
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Igneous Rocks
To see pictures of various rock types use the Google
advanced image search. Enter the name of the rock in the "related to exact
phrase" field. For example, enter 'granite', 'sedimentary rock', 'sandstone',
etc. You will be surprised how many different pictures you can find that will help
in identification.
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Here are several different web pages that can help in understanding the origion,
classification, and identification of igneous rocks.
You probably won't have time to study them all, so go to the pages and scan through
them quickly to see which is most helpful.
Different students learn in different ways, so what works for one person may
not be right for another. This is especially true with identification of earth materials,
which requires 'fine tuning' of vision and learning to discrimiate between subtle
differences in size, color and luster, and to recognize crystal forms and cleavage.
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James Madison University
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Georgia Perimeter College
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California State University, Long Beach
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California State University, Pomona
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Sedimentary Rocks
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8
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Metamorphism & Metamorphic Rocks
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Cal Poly Pomona
This site takes you through a series of steps of identification.It requires that
you can recognize the presence of foliation and mineral grains.
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James Madison University
These sites have several different pages. Follow the links to find the particular
information needed.
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University of North Dakota
This site is part of the UND Space Studies Virtual Campus and also contains links
about volcanoes.
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9
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Age of Earth and Geologic Time
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Nothing Yet---Send suggestions. What would you like to see?
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11
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Streams
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Nothing Yet---Send suggestions. What would you like to see?
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11
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Groundwater
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Darcy's law is a simple formula to calculate the rate of flow of groundwater.
If you take the time to think about the terms used and to understand what they mean,
then the formula is very easy to apply.
The "K" in the equation is a measure of the permeability. The more
permeable the rock is the more water can flow through it so it will have a bigger
permeability constant.
The "A" term is the area of the region that the water is flowing through.
If it is a pipe it's area would be that of a circle. Usually geological flow regions
are assumed to be rectangular over short distances, so the area is simply the width
times the height of the aquifer.
The term h/L is just the 'slope' of the water table. 'h' is the difference in
height between two points and 'L' is the distance between those two points. It is
like the gradient of a stream or the pitch of a roof.
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VFT
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Formal Report
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EW
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Earthwatch Log
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A log is a journal that records specific events. Keep it in a document
using the date of the event as a heading. If you like you can use the 'journal' from
the project gallery of MSWord, under 'writing tools', or adapt it to your own format.
Here is a link to some EW example reports.
Scan newspapers, magazines and internet for news about geological events. Write a
short log entry that gives the date, source, and a brief description of the event.
See the syllabus or FAQ for more
information.
Record the date, the name and/place of the event, and a brief description of the
event. Save them in a document and submit it at the end of the semester on the due
date on the onlineschedule.
The Sunday "Honolulu Advertiser" has an 'Earthwatch' section that shows
events of the previous week. You can also locate internet sites that report geologic
events. Some of these are government agencies, others are university or commercial
sites. Some are availabe as RSS feeds that are sent to you automatically (if your
browser supports RSS, or if you have the software to receive them.)
Search Google or Yahoo
for "Geologic Hazard"or "Geologic Event" or search for documents
containing geology or geologic or event. You will be surprised how much information
is out there.
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EX
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Final Exam
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The exam will be made available according to the date listed on the
schedule.
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