Mapping Bingie

Overview of the Mapping Bingie Virtual Field Trip and Workflow

• Sources of information for this task are in four places: (1) three web pages at this site linked at the top right and called Home, Field Sites and Field Photographs, (2) 3D photogrammetry models of 32 outcrops hosted at Sketchfab and listed on the Field Sites page, (3) high-resolution images on ImageMatrix and (4) a field trip guide booklet

• Start your workflow by reviewing the three web pages at this site, then read and work through the tasks in the field trip guide booklet

• Note: there is a lot of information on the web about Bingie Bingie and some if it is wrong. Students should focus on the assigned tasks and provide answers with justification based on your own observations. Students who have copied information from the web and made unjustified interpretations will be marked down.

Learning Outcomes

• Experience making outcrop-scale and thin-section-scale geological observations

• Create a detailed geological map of a headland with igneous cross-cutting relationships

• Interpret the origin of igneous rocks

• Determine a geological history for your mapping area and support your interpretation with evidence

• (Side tour stop at Cooma) Examine S-type granite and migmatite (high-grade metasedimentary rocks) and interpret structural/metamorphic textures

• Take excellent scientific field notes and make sketches of geological relationships

What you will need:

Note: some of these items may be provided in hard copy by your class tutor

• Field trip guide booklet (download)

• Field notebook to make sketches and notes of key field relationships

• A4 size aerial photograph base map (laminated) with tracing paper overlay (download) [provided by Sandy Cruden, Monash University and also available from here]

• Cross section and extended legend handout (download)

• Blank geological history table (download)

• Coloured and lead pencils, eraser, fine (S 0.4 mm) permanent markers, protractor, ruler, etc

• Internet access to virtually explore Bingie Bingie Point on ImageMatrix

Read and follow the instructions in the guide booklet and hand in for assessment:

• Map with extended legend and cross section (50%)

• Geological history table (10%)

• Notebook and answers to questions in the guide booklet (40%)