Geology 103 (Sedimentology and Stratigraphy)

California State University, Sacramento

Week 12:

Group stratigraphy project (continued!)

Overview:

 

This week you will visit your outcrop for the second time.  Before you visit the outcrop your group leader will need to show progress from last week. 

 

After you visit your outcrop the second time, your group will have a week to produce a poster. 

 

Before you visit the field:

 

Your group leader should show me what your group produced during the last week:

  • Presentation quality correlation chart, with caption

  • Lithologic description- what you saw last week

  • Publication quality location map- with last week's stop

  • Publication quality photographs of outcrop and hand samples (with captions and labels)

  • Geologic maps- clip out portions of maps that cover your area, include captions and references.

 

Your group leader should show me where you plan to go this week:

  • Location map(s)

  • Geologic map(s)

  • Lithologic description or reasons to visit a site

Pick up keys, shovels, sample bags.

 

This week- what to do in the field:

 

Visit an outcrop that you haven't seen yet

Describe the unit at the new locality:

Beds and bedding, lithologies, sedimentary structures, composition

Take photos

Collect samples

Measure thicknesses

Take notes

 

Next week- producing the poster:

 

Here is a Powerpoint template for your poster:

 

Poster template

 

The template has instructions for producing the final poster.  Use these instructions as a guide, but feel free to experiment with colors, layout and design.

 

Rules for poster printing

  • Keep fonts large!  Posters should be readable from 5 feet away.

  • Keep it simple- use brief phrases or bullet items, avoid paragraphs.

  • Give credit (reference) any material that you did not produce.

  • Use white or light background- no dark photos or dark backgrounds.