ROCKS AND SHOCKS

BAESI Workshop 7-11 August 2006
Your Hosts: Ellen Metzger & Richard Sedlock, with Seth Burgess



PLATE TECTONICS

Convection Fluid  from Carolina Biological Supply

Square bottles
rheologic fluid name/source

Discovering Plate Boundaries” activity: the original source of all the maps, at a variety of scales for your printing convenience.

Questions to accompany Jules Verne, Jr. web site

EARTHQUAKES

Offset features on the San Andreas fault
Illustrator file page 1 (you can modify)
Illustrator file page 2 (you can modify)
PDF file (you cannot modify)

Online Exercise: Earthquakes (this document contains the following three links plus questions concerning those linked sites).
The Learning Center "Make a Quake" site
The ABAG "pick city & earthquake fault" Web site
Earthquake Joe/The Earthquake Game

'06 The Next Great Quake (14-min DVD) $5 shipping

Mercalli intensity activity: base map
Mercalli intensity activity: experiences
Mercalli intensity activity: USGS "key"

Putting Down Roots: A very useful publication by the USGS and many allied groups. Packed with information about earthquakes. Heidi Stenner had copies of this available for you at the Hayward fault trench site.

Where's the San Andreas fault?: The PDF version of the teacher-friendly publication by our friend (and frequent BAESI collaborator) Phil Stoffer of the USGS. We raffled off hard copies of this book, but might be able to get your own by contacting Phil directly: pstoffer then the "at" symbol, then usgs.gov.

ABAG Liquefaction Maps: The "interactive" option sounds inviting, but the "static" maps option is much more stable and requires less bandwith.

Sarah's photos of the Hayward fault field trip (thanks Sarah!)

Sarah's ppt presenetation on the Hayward fault (thanks again!)


ROCKS & MINERALS

Mineralogy4Kids
The Rock Cycle
Minerals in Your House

Rock Hounds

BBC Rock Cycle Experiments

Rock cycle game

Crystal lab

Crystal Growing Materials

Potassium Alum
Salol


VOLCANOES

Build Your Own Volcano

Volcano World

Volcanoes Online


TOPOGRAPHY

The Gallery of Virtual Topography (pages developed by Steve Reynolds at Arizona State University): be sure to check out the water-plane options...

EARTH SCIENCE CAREERS

From the American Geological Institute

Career Profiles from the Association of Woman Geologists

USGS Careers in Sciences

Digital Library for Earth System Science Education Diversity site: Careers and professions in the Earth sciences

Sloan Career Cornerstone Center

What Do Geoscientists Do?  - from Cal State Fullerton