Geology 111

 

POTENTIALLY* OPEN LAB HOURS (Fall 2019)

*If the room is locked, then you will have to find an instructor or lab tech to let you in. Many (but not all) of the chemistry instructors and lab techs will let you in. If they can't or won't unlock the door, come to the Earth Science Offices (building #37) and an instructor or the Earth Science lab tech (Julie Burcham) should be able let you in. A box of mineral and rock specimens are also available to examine at the library limited loan desk and in the Earth Science workroom 37-300A2.

 

Rock and Mineral Collections/Resources:

Mineral Pictures This is the power point I showed in class.

 

Rocks and Minerals practice

 

Practice Mineral Quiz  Good practice, but it will not score your results until you identify all the properties.

 

Rock Exam Tips Pictures of potentially confusing rocks.

 

LAB SOFTWARE:

Windows Versions (These executable files are the most trouble free versions for Windows users.)
Contouring Exercise - Contouring.exe
Strike and Dip - Strike and Dip v3.6.exe
Geologic History Exercise 1 - GeoHist1.exe
Geologic History Exercise 2 - GeoHist2.exe
Geologic History Exercise 3 - GeoHist3.exe (Note: Exercise 3 should work with Windows 7 or 8 but several error messages often pop up on. Just close them all and the program should run anyway. It may not work at all with Windows 10. In which case you will have to open the Shockwave version in Firefox.)
 
Shockwave Versions (These run in a browser on Windows and some older Mac systems. Must use FIREFOX and have or install Shockwave*)
Contouring Exercise - Contouring
Strike and Dip - Strike and Dip v3.6
Geologic History Exercise 1 - GeoHist1
Geologic History Exercise 2 - GeoHist2
Geologic History Exercise 3 - GeoHist3
 

*Important: When installing the Shockwave Player you must select the full (not slim) version and the appropriate operating system (i.e. Windows or Macintosh_OSX).

 

Geo History Ex This is the original (DOS!) version of the geologic history exercise. Don't laugh, these graphics were state of the art in 1990.

 

LAB MANUAL FILES:

Minerals; Igneous Rocks; Sedimentary Rocks; Metamorphic Rocks

 

GOOGLE EARTH FILES:

Goggle Earth Plate Tectonics Lab.pdf

 

Dynamic_Earth.kmz

 

Hawaii_chain.kml

 

Snake_River_Plain.kml

 

Tectonic_Plates.kmz

 

LINKS:

Websites with good mineral and rock pictures:

MINERAL INFORMATION INSTITUTE

 

MINERALOGY DATABASE

 

Lynn Fichter's Mineral and Rock Pages at JMU


Here is a link to a great structure website:

http://reynolds.asu.edu/blocks/menulist.htm