Day 10 Grand Ledge

Topics

Today is the first day that Cohort 1 and 2 will work together. You will mentor the new cohort in learning the fine art of taking excellent field notes and how to use GPS units. Activities and discussions will include:

-Intro to geology and how to keep field notes

-Coal seams, meandering river systems, sedimentary deposits, fossils

-Drawing stratigraphy columns

-Scales, measuring, GPS

Misconceptions

1.Even though most coal found in nature is the altered remains of prehistoric vegetation that originally accumulated in swamps and peat bogs, mankind can make coal so we will never run out.

2.Rivers do not carve valleys, but only passively flow down them.

3.Life exists on Earth because the Earth is the right distance from the Sun for water to exist in liquid form.

4.Separations along bedding plane, like those that dominate most sedimentary outcrops, occur deep beneath the Earth's surface.

5.Rocks (and minerals) grow in layers under the right conditions.

Locations

Ledges

Lincoln Brick Quarry

Fitzgerald Park

Napoleon Quarry

Links

Lincoln Brick Quarry

Fitzgerald Park