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Organizations and Societies, Resource Bin,
and Other Sites of Interest
Organizations and Societies:
Physical Properties of Earth
Materials (PPEM)
Tectonophysics
Section
Resource Bin:
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"New Departures in Structural Geology
and Tectonics" –
2003
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"Research
in Structural Geology & Tectonics" – 1998
Student exercises and solutions for instructors of Structural Geology are now available for downloading on the WEB. Both the exercises and the solutions may be downloaded in either WORD or PDF formats from:
http://pangea.stanford.edu/projects/structural_geology/. Included are more than 200 individual problems for students, covering the concepts and techniques developed in the central nine chapters of the recently published textbook Fundamentals of Structural Geology by David D. Pollard and Raymond C. Fletcher (Cambridge University Press, 2005). More than 170 pages of password protected solutions may be downloaded by instructors and include graphs, tables, and drawings to illustrate solutions methods and results; detailed derivations of all equations; and MATLAB m-scripts to reproduce all numerical and graphical results. The exercises include those suitable for both undergraduate students in a first course and graduate students in a more advanced course. In addition to exercises that focus on concepts and techniques there are exercises that use a variety of real data sets from the field and laboratory to illustrate problem solving methods and research. Please send questions and requests for a password to: dpollard@pangea.stanford.edu
John Veevers' billion-year earth history of Australia & neighbors in Gondwanaland (BYEHA) is almost sold out and the supplementary coloured ATLAS is selling well. To avoid disappointment, check: www.es.mq.edu.au/GEMOC/BYEHA/page1.htm for reviews by John Crowell, Bill Dickinson, & Dick Selley, and use the order forms for payment by credit card or cheque.
Tasa Graphic Arts announces the release of the CD-Rom "Introduction to Structural Methods", written and narrated by H. Robert Burger (Smith College) and Tekla A. Harms (Amherst College). This product offers an innovative approach for teaching and understanding structural concepts. Designed to supplement structural geology courses, this program utilizes full color animations, illustrations, and photographs along with interactive activities and quizzes to promote student understanding of this dynamic subject.
For further information about this program:
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The Colorado Geological Survey has posted its first interactive online publication, "Colorado Late Cenozoic Fault and Fold Database" at http://geosurvey.state.co.us/ The database contains information compiled from available literature about more than 300 faults and folds that are known or suspected to have moved during the late Cenozoic (approximately the last 23.7 million years) i.e., that cut Miocene or younger rocks. The Map Server displays a zoomable map of faults color-coded by age within Colorado. This interactive map allows quick identification of structures by displaying a maptip box containing the name, identification, and age of the structure, when resting a cursor over any of the faults. Other layers in the map also contain maptips. For example, resting the cursor over a city area (shaded in purple) will show the city name and when resting on the background the name of the county appears. The map legend shows the data layers and how each feature is symbolized. Zooming in to the map displays different information layers. For instance, highways appear when the map is zoomed to 1:500,000.
The map server is linked to a
Microsoft Access database. The database contains a variety of information about
each structure such as length, sense of movement, geomorphic expression, age of
faulted deposits and references. To see a report from the database,
simply double-click the mouse on the structure in the map frame and the report
for that particular fault appears in a separate window. The report you see
lists all the information contained in the Access database. The entire
database is downloadable. For more information contact:
Vince Matthews
Sr. Science Advisor
Colorado Geological Survey
1313 Sherman Street, #715
Denver, CO 80120
Phone: 303-866-3028 Fax:
303-866-2461
Doug Walker, Dept. of Geology, University of Kansas, has a web site for geologic maps: http://geomaps.geo.ukans.edu. The web site is part of an effort to publish geologic maps both electronically and as paper copies. Almost any map can be published digitally for low cost and no overhead. If you are interested in learning more, contact Walker at: jdwalker@ku.edu; phone: (785) 864-2735; fax: (785) 864-5276. Walker solicits inquiries from professional societies who might be willing to take this effort over (GSA?).
Just a reminder to those of you supervising EDMAP students or students who have participated in the EDMAP program. GSA Map and Chart Series has a digital publication option! This is an easy way to disseminate the information to a wide audience and make sure that the mapping survives for the future. Maps and accompanying text will get a DOI, so they become a citable reference. Please contact Doug Walker (jdwalker@ku.edu) if you are interested in submitting.
Check out HTTP://WWW-GEOLOGY.UCDAVIS.EDU/~GEL214/. Contents include: Lecture notes, problem sets, WWW links of interest to students and researchers, and references.
The photos include: Badlands, Black Hills, Devils Tower, Great Sand Dunes, San Juan Mtns and Basin, Mesa Verde, Shiprock, Hopi Buttes, Meteor Crater, Sinkholes of Chevelon Fork, San Francisco Peaks, Canyons of Little Colorado, Colorado, and San Juan Rivers, Rainbow Bridge, Arches, Bingham Copper Mine, Bonneville beaches on Stansbury Island, Craters of the Moon, Yellowstone Park, Tetons, moraines along the Wind River Mtns, Sheep Mtn. folds, Mammoth Cave area, Lake Michigan shores and raised beaches, Midwestern rivers and glacial landscapes, tornados and floods, Baraboo area, and others. Look over the 640-pixel-wide index photos. If you see any you would like, record the ID number. There is a provision for downloading 2000-pixel-wide versions from our FTP site that are suitable for slides or video projectors.
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