Week 13 : Field based exercises
In-class exercise is designed to give students practice analyzing outcrops before they go on a field trip. First, students watch a short video tutorial on analyzing an outcrop. Then, they are given a color photograph of an outcrop and a hand sample and complete a field notebook entry for the outcrop.
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Course Material
- Week 1-2: Introduction and Identification of rock types
- Week 3-4: Identifying various types of criteria to recognize rocks: Sedimentary rocks
- Week 5-6 :Identifying various types of criteria to recognize rocks
- Week 7 : Geological features (Igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic)
- Week 8 :Structure of Sedimentary rocks.
- Week 8: Uses of Brunton Compass.
- Week 9 :Field work lab-Roundness
- Week 10 :Field work lab-sorting
- Week 11: Mapping (Regional, Detailed)
- Week 12 : Geomorphological features in the field.
- Week 13 : Field based exercises
- Week 14: How to locate ourself on a map.
- Chapters 12
- Department Earth Sciences
- Teacher
Dr. Syed Haroon Ali
