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The labs in Introduction to Geology for Non-Majors Lab Manual have a different focus that a traditional introduction to geology: instead of training future geoscientists, they are specifically designed to enable students to see how many aspects of geology—and science in general—impact everyone in everyday life, even in ways that you may not have thought about. Of course, along the way, you will still learn many basic principles of geology (which are necessary to understand why they affect you).
Introduction to Geology for Non-Majors Lab Manual:
- includes computer-based exercises; which may seem a strange thing to do in a geology course, but they are specifically designed to teach students how to learn outside of class.
- has a Utah-based focus, and if you do not live there, it constitutes a terrific “classroom” to use as a basis for many of the questions in this manual.
- complements an introductory geology lecture course which means the exercises herein are not preceded by lengthy, textbook-style explanations of the material.
Preface
Acknowledgments
LAB 1: The Scientific Method: A Geological Example
Purpose
Key Learning Points
What is a Hypothesis?
Important—Understand these Three Things Before Answering the Next Questions
LAB 2: Geologic Hazards
Purpose
Key Learning Points
Earthquake Hazards
Surface Water Hazard: Flooding
Mass Wasting Hazards
Problem Soil Hazards
Shallow Groundwater Hazards
LAB 3: Plate Tectonics
Purpose
Key Learning Points
Using Google Earth
LAB 4: Earthquakes
Purpose
Key Learning Points
LAB 5: Geologic Structures
Purpose
Key Learning Points
LAB 6: Minerals
Purpose
Key Learning Points
LAB 7: Igneous Rocks
Purpose
Key Learning Points
LAB 8: Sedimentary Rocks
Purpose
Key Learning Points
LAB 9: Metamorphic Rocks
Purpose
Key Learning Points
LAB 10: Mass Wasting and Streams
Purpose
Key Learning Points
LAB 11: Groundwater and Arid, Eolian, and Glacial Environments
Purpose
Key Learning Points
LAB 12: Geologic Time: Stratigraphic (Relative) and Radiometric Dating
Purpose
Key Learning Points
Stratigraphic Dating
Radiometric Dating