Okay, no one else said it yet, so I had to be the first one! With that out of the way I’ll never post a poor geology joke again! Our trip to Sudbury is fast approaching. I thought it would be wise to refresh myself on some geology. I am a mechanical engineering student, which means rocks are not at the center of my curriculum. I have taken a couple of geology classes, but it has been a couple of years, so I thought a good place to start would be with the fundamental geology concepts.
A good basic geology website, very reminiscent to me of my Geology 101 class at
http://rst.gsfc.nasa.gov/Sect2/Sect2_1a.html
Some basic information with pretty pictures:
http://www.psi.edu/explorecraters/background.htm#d
More in depth information:
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/publications/books/CB-954/chapter3.pdf
Then something else I though was fun in my internet searches were geological maps. I managed to find a couple that show in detail the geology of regions.
The first one is a geological map of
http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/maps/environment/geology/majorrockcategories
Of course I am bias, so I found a map with the geology of
http://njgin.state.nj.us/dep/DEP_iMapNJGeology/viewer.htm
Gneiss, now I feel better with my geology skills!
Stephen
This blog is the schist! When do you get to use the Geiger counter ?
ReplyDeleteGood blog! Love the websites.
ReplyDeleteLove the joke at the end. Theresa
ReplyDeleteJust about every outcrop we stopped at. We took Geiger counter readings in sets of 10 at the various outcrops and rock types at each out crop. Up in till the Geiger counter broke, but we got some good readings. We also used a magnetic susceptibility gun which kind of looked like a radar gun, and coincidentally is good at getting cars to slow down when pointed in their direction. Another funny thing was at each out crop we stopped at, the cars driving by would honk, we are still unsure if it was because they like students, geologist, or were saying get out of the road!
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