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Lab 7 Resources
Lab 7 Resources
Use the following resources as directed in your lab manual.
Exercise 1: Complete the Sequence Diagrams in your lab manual.
Exercise 2: Identify the geologic structures shown in the diagrams below and answer the questions in your lab manual.
Exercise 3: Geology of the Grand Canyon - Use the Grand Canyon Explorer page for all questions except c & d (see bottom of page).
Exercise 4: Planetary Geology - Use the Views of the Solar System page for all questions.
The following images are to be used with Exercise 2:
Ex2-1: San Andreas Fault
[Shelton @ https://oeit.mit.edu/pgt/index-part=6.0.6.html
Ex2-2: Death Valley, Mosaic Canyon
[http://geotripperimages.com/Tectonic_Processes/Faults.htm]
Ex2-3 (New): "This interface is between folded Middle Jurassic and overlying Late Jurassic strata, in Utah"
[https://www.eoas.ubc.ca/courses/eosc326/resources/Stratigraphy/unconformities-v2.htm]
Ex 2-4: Sideling Hill, WV
[https://www.geologyin.com/2014/05/sideling-hill.html]
Ex 2-5: Turret Rock, Canyonlands NP, Utah
[https://geodil.dperkins.org/h/2988.html]
Ex. 2-6 (New): Canberra, Australia
[SciencePhoto.com - full link not included because it would give you the answer. :)]
Ex 2-7 (New) Location Unknown
[https://www.reddit.com/r/geology/comments/x2v72s/syncline/]
Ex2-8: Lewis Fault, Glacier National Park
[https://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~millerm/Lewis1.html]
Ex2-8 (Wide Angle): Nearly horizonal line mid-mountain is the fault (Lewis Fault, Glacier NP)
[https://luirig.altervista.org/pics/index4.php?search=Glacier+National+Park,+Montana.+Lewis+overthrust,+viewed+from...&page=1]
Ex 2-9 (New) Ketobe Knob, Utah
[Original Source Unknown - multiple online reshares]
Ex 2-10 Siccar Point, Scotland
[https://deeptime.voyage/siccar-point/]
Ex 2-11: Grand Teton Unconformity
[https://pages.uoregon.edu/millerm/unconTet1.html]
Ex 2-12: The Great Unconformity, The Grand Canyon
]https://azgs.arizona.edu/photo/grand-canyon-stratigraphy-great-unconformity]
Ex 2-12a: The Great Unconformity Up Close
[https://iugs-geoheritage.org/geoheritage_sites/the-great-unconformity-at-grand-canyon/]
Images below this line are to be used in Exercise 3, along with the Grand Canyon Explorer website and/or the Grand Canyon rock samples in the lab.
Ex 3, #3 - "Cliffs below Pima Point, west of Mohave Point, near The Abyss" Grand Canyon
Differential weathering of upper layers
[Cropped from: https://www.americansouthwest.net/arizona/grand_canyon/mohave2_l.html]
Ex 3D - "Inner Gorge in Twilight" - Inner Gorge of the Grand Canyon
[https://americantraveljournal.blogspot.com/2018/06/sunset-at-pima-point-grand-canyon.html]
Ex 3D (CloseUp) - Inner Gorge showing schist & granite
[https://www.travel-notes.org/photos/gc_inner_gorge.html]
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