This lab manual provides a complete kit for students to fulfill a college-level geology lab requirement. The lessons follow a sequence that progresses through the basics of plate tectonics, seismology, minerals and rocks, and geologic time. It concludes with overarching topics such as Earth’s major geologic features and economic geology resources.
Lesson 1 Plate Tectonics
Lesson 2 Minerals
Lesson 3 Igneous Rocks and Volcanism
Lesson 4 Sedimentary Rocks
Lesson 5 Metamorphism and Metamorphic Rocks
Lesson 6 Geologic Structures and Mountain Formation
Lesson 7 Earthquakes and Seismology
Lesson 8 Geologic Time
Lesson 9 Mass Wasting
Lesson 10 Topographic Maps
Lesson 11 Streams and Groundwater
Lesson 12 Glaciers
Lesson 13 Coastlines
Lesson 14 Petroleum Geology