Field Trip Guidebook Research Articles

Field trip – Outer Flysch Carpathians and Pieniny Klippen Belt (PKB)

We are glad that we can meet personally during the 2nd Symposium of the IGCP 710 Project, after the pandemic time, which disrupted our idea of regular, annual meetings. After the 1st virtual meeting during the autumn of 2021, we have now the chance to discuss face to face and go to the field together to touch „Tethyan” rocks for a better understanding of what happened hundreds/decades of millions years ago in our lovely ancient ocean. As you know, through your knowledge and experience, the Tethyan Ocean history, both in its western and eastern parts, is fascinating, but enigmatic from time to time, to say the least.Generally, the geological history of the Tethys Ocean is broadly established. Yet many details are still unknown and many major questions remain, related to geotectonics, palaeogeography, palaeoceanography and palaeobiogeography. Improved understanding of the Mesozoic-Cenozoic ocean/climate history is based on accurate reconstruction of the distribution of continents and ocean basins and on opening and closing of seaways along the Tethys. There is little or no agreement about the number or size of separate basins, nor on their space-time relationships. Moreover, there is no consensus on the number and location of former micro-continents and on their incorporation into the present-day Eurasian-Mountain Belt. Geologists studying individual parts of these belts have been educated within different geological systems and adhere to different geological paradigms. Correlation between Western and Eastern Tethys is difficult, not only because of the large distances involved, but also because they are separated by the area of the huge Himalayan collision within which much of the pre-Paleogene tectonostratigraphic information has been lost. The aim of this IGCP project is to bring together geologists from the western and eastern parts of the former Tethys (Morocco/Iberia–SE Asia) to establish a common framework and a common tectonostratigraphic concept (latest Paleozoic–Mesozoic with emphasis on Permian–Jurassic).On the one hand, UNESCO forms a special umbrella for the IGCP Projects, and on the other hand, it has been very active in supporting the ideas of “geoparks” and “geotourism” for years. For this reason, we decided to use an international magazine – Geotourism – to print our materials, both abstracts and a field trip guidebook. We hope it will be useful for both Tethyan friends and geotourism enthusiasts.Enjoy Krakow during the stationary part of the Symposium and the Polish-Slovak-Czech Carpathians during a 5-day field trip!!

Field trip guides of the 20th Annual Conference of the European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists, 26th June – 1st July 2023, Sabadell (Barcelona), Spain

Field trip guides of the 20th Annual Conference of the European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists, 26th June – 1st July 2023, Sabadell (Barcelona), Spain

Optimization of Kampung Wisata Sawah Management Towards a Child Friendly Educational Area, Pematang Johar Village, Labuhan Deli District, Deli Serdang Regency

This Community Service Program aims to provide solutions to overcome partner problems as follows: (1) Unavailability of tour packages that offer child-friendly educational programs, (2) not optimal management of literacy rooms as child-friendly learning facilities to get to know the environment and local culture better. (local wisdom), (3) There is no child-friendly learning media that is integrated with the concept of tourism based on local wisdom, and (4) Straw waste has not been utilized to be used as tourism commodities that are innovative and based on local wisdom. The PKM program is carried out in a series of steps; (1) preparation, (2) implementation of activities, (3) monitoring and evaluation, and (4) follow-up. The methods used in this service activity include socialization, mentoring, work practices, and simulations. Activities carried out in PKM include (1) socialization and assistance in making educational tour packages, (2) mentoring in the management of literacy rooms as a means of learning for children, (3) making learning media that are integrated in concepts, and (4) assistance in making woven straw waste. Through the activities carried out, it will produce outputs in the form of an Education Fieldtrip Guidebook, Leafleats and X-Banners for Field Trip Locations, Child Friendly Literacy Rooms and X-Banners for Literacy Rooms, Educational Game Media, and Woven Straw Waste along with a Guidebook for Making Woven Straw Waste . From this activity, it is hoped that a follow-up to the Management of Rice Field Tourism Village Towards a Child-Friendly Educational Area will be realized, especially in Pematang Johar Village, Labuhan Deli District, generally in Deli Serdang Regency.

Mobile UX design: learning from the Flyover Country mobile app

ABSTRACT Technology has transformed maps into interactive tools for exploring and understanding the world. In this article, we present the user experience (UX) design process for Flyover Country (http://flyovercountry.io), a mobile mapping application that visualizes information about the Earth’s geology and history, allowing users to save and then access the information offline while flying, driving, or hiking. Specifically, the paper presents a UX design study that tracks the conceptualization, implementation, and revision of Flyover Country, and employs scenario-based design to walk through a pair of use case scenarios that informed our UX design: science outreach to the general public and field trip guides for geoscience education. In the paper, we note UX design insights that are potentially transferable to other mobile mapping contexts, organizing insights by mobile representation design (scale, projection, symbolization, and typography) versus mobile interaction design (map entry point, bottom navigation, floating action button, and pull-up information panel).

Enabling student self-guided field expeditions in geoscience with the GeoXploration platform for mobile apps

The pervasiveness of smartphones amongst the undergraduate population has been leveraged to deploy a student-centered learning platform that enables exploration of individual interests and empowers students to become their own fieldtrip guides. We describe an automated learning analytics platform developed by combining a set of readily available web applications with custom scripts to support student-guided experiential learning activities. The platform has been utilized in introductory geoscience courses to support smartphone submission of place-based learning extracurricular activities, available to approximately fifteen hundred undergraduate students. Six platform goals were developed to encourage engagement within these courses: build community, foster collaboration, minimize extra work for instructors, support changeable and flexible assignments, enable student accountability, and establish platform sustainability. The utilization of existing web applications, rather than development of an independent smartphone application, results in a platform that is more accessible and sustainable for long-term use by instructors with a familiar interface for students.

Augmented Reality and Valorizing the Mesozoic Geological Heritage (Burgos, Spain)

This article presents the application of augmented reality through the use of devices in the valorisation of the geological heritage of six known geosites of the Jurassic or Cretaceous age, located in the South-East (SE) of the province of Burgos (Castilla y León, Spain). Using augmented reality techniques, geomatic resources have been developed that allow real-time interaction with different thematic layers (e.g., cartography, digital terrain model, etc.). Using these techniques, this paper proposes a virtual route in Google Earth and a Field Trip Guide with a detailed description of each site and suggested activities for educational use and one free geoapp. These geosites comprise three zones with deposits of dinosaur ichnites and three other sectors with marine fossils (Jurassic limestones), fossil trees, or singular karstic landscapes. The globalization of geodatabases allows the intelligent use of geo-resources and their use for tourism, didactic and scientific purposes.

Eudora Welty House and Garden

Eudora Welty House and Garden Bridget Edwards, Director April of 2016 marked the tenth anniversary of the public opening of the Eudora Welty House, renamed the Eudora Welty House and Garden (EWHG) in 2013. We celebrated this milestone with a week of special events. We launched it with the inauguration of Second Saturday open hours and a talk by long-time Welty friend Patti Carr Black. Black discussed the curation of her 1995 exhibit, "Other Places," which highlights twenty of Welty's 1930s photographs of New Orleans and New York City, Welty's two other beloved cities outside of Jackson. This exhibit was on display in the Education and Visitors Center during 2016. Maggie Stevenson took the lead in orchestrating our second "pop-up" art exhibit, which presented Welty-themed work done by Mississippi artists. We hosted the Scholastic Writing Awards ceremony on a Sunday, which was sponsored by the Eudora Welty Foundation, and opened the Welty House for tours to student winners, their families, and teachers. The week also included our annual celebration of Welty's birthday on April 13, which was held in conjunction with our spring plant sale. Over nine hundred people visited the EWHG during the anniversary week. We enthusiastically stretched ourselves in a new direction last year with "Jane Austen in the Eudora Welty Garden." This was our first mini-film series, and it was held in the Camelia Room of the Welty garden. Independent scholar Carolyn Brown proposed the idea in the fall of 2015 and served as the content specialist for the three-part series that aimed to combine Welty's love of Austen's fiction, cinema, and good times in the garden! Emma, Pride and Prejudice (the Keira Knightley version), and the Bollywoood adaptation of the latter, Bride and Prejudice, were shown over three Friday nights in May, September, and October. I served as the [End Page 126] lead staff member on this project, done in partnership with Jackson-based Crossroads Film Society and the Mississippi regional chapter of the Jane Austen Society of North America (MS-JASNA). The series was funded by a grant from the Mississippi Humanities Council with assistance from MS-JASNA. The Museum Division of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History contributed marketing and technical assistance as well as funds to provide moviegoers with popcorn and lemonade. Dr. Brown spoke at each screening and distributed handouts highlighting Welty's connections to each film. The weather cooperated nicely, and the series was a robust success, drawing just under four hundred moviegoers. We hope to do it again in the fall of 2017. The series was especially successful in drawing younger people to the site and noticeably increased our Facebook "likes"! Education and Outreach Specialist Isabel Gray accomplished a great deal this year, starting with the completion of the EWHG's first Educator's Field Trip Guide for teachers. The guide is 25 pages and includes information for planning a trip, the history of the house and garden, a Welty family timeline, curricular connections showing how a trip meshes with state educational standards across a variety of disciplines, resources for teachers before and after a visit, games, and a host of other activities. Gray's excellent work was fittingly praised by many in the Department. The guide can be found at www.mdah.ms.gov/welty/resources. Gray also curated her first exhibit, which opened to the public in mid-February. Dear Miss Welty: A Rotating Selection of Correspondence is drawn from "fan mail" found in the Welty Collection at the Archives. She chose a wonderfully diverse selection of letters and telegrams to scan and display, ranging from notes by Presidents John Kennedy and Bill Clinton to a 1983 letter by an eight-year-old girl from San Francisco beseeching Welty's understanding and friendship as they endured their common predicament of having such an unusual name. The famed 1943 letter to Welty from William Faulkner is also on display. Gray is currently choosing the next rotation of letters; they will highlight correspondence relating to life in Jackson and area friends and fans. We continue with our quarterly book signings and readings, a collaboration with Lemuria Books. We had...

Teachers as Secondary Players: Involvement in Field Trips to Natural Environments

This study focused on field trips to natural environments where the teacher plays a secondary role alongside a professional guide. We investigated teachers’ and field trip guides’ views of the teacher’s role, the teacher’s actual function on the field trip, and the relationship between them. We observed field trips, interviewed teachers and guides, and administered questionnaires. We found different levels of teacher involvement, ranging from mainly supervising and giving technical help, to high involvement especially in the cognitive domain and sometimes in the social domain. Analysis of students’ self-reported outcomes showed that the more students believe their teachers are involved, the higher the self-reported learning outcomes.

PRE-CONFERENCE FIELD TRIP: Ordovician of the Southern Appalachians, June 3rd – 7th, 2015

12th International Symposium on the Ordovician System Field Trip Guide

MID-CONFERENCE FIELD TRIP: Ordovician of Germany Valley, West Virginia, June 10th, 2015

12th International Symposium on the Ordovician System Field Trip Guide

PRE-CONFERENCE FIELD TRIP: Katian GSSP and Carbonates of the Simpson and Arbuckle Groups in Oklahoma

12th International Symposium on the Ordovician System Field Trip Guide

POST CONFERENCE FIELD TRIP: The Central Appalachians

12th International Symposium on the Ordovician System Field Trip Guide

The New Data on Stratigraphy of the Riphean Stratotype in the Southern Urals, Russia

A recent series of U-Pb age determinations of zircons (SHRIMP, IDTIMS) from volcanic flows of several levels permitted to refine stratigraphy of the Riphean of Bashkirian megaanticlinorium (Urals, Russia), and provide a better correlation of this straton with the International and Chinese scales of the Proterozoic. The Upper Proterozoic deposits of the Riphean and Vendian of the General Stratigraphic Scale of Russia (GSSR), widely exposed in the Bashkirian Megaanticlinorium BMA) of the Southern Urals, can be approxi- mately correlated with the Meso- and Neoproterozoic of the International Stratigraphic scale (ISS) (Stratigraphic schemes of the Urals; 1993, The Stratotype of the Riphean, 1983; The Geologic Time Scale, 2012), or Sinian to Changcheng succession of stratigraphic units of China. In the last years, after the International excursion to BMA, with participation of the Chinese and Korean stratigraphers (Field trip Guide…, 2006), the work of dating of volcanic rocks of the Riphean section was strongly activated owing to a considerable progress in technique of isotope research. The work was stimulated by understanding that the International Scheme of division of Meso- and Neoproterozoic into systems/periods of equal duration (200 Ma) contradicts to traditional principles of stratigraphy, with elaboration of a system of stratotypes and GSSPs in real sections, with application of methods of chemostratigraphy, event stratigraphy, micropaleontology and other approaches (Bleeker, 2004). The under- standing that the existing chronometric stratigraphic scale of the Precambrian needs an up-to-date chronostrati- graphic revision, based on global events, becomes now stronger (Geologic Time Scale…, 2012; Grazhdankin & Maslov, 2013), though the Meso- and Neoproterozoic scale in ISS is still unreformed. Volcanic eruptions are developed at three levels of the Riphean section of BMA and their dating is of a spe-

Arsenic Associated with Historical Gold Mining in the Sierra Nevada Foothills: Case Study and Field Trip Guide for Empire Mine State Historic Park, California

Research Article| January 01, 2014 Arsenic Associated with Historical Gold Mining in the Sierra Nevada Foothills: Case Study and Field Trip Guide for Empire Mine State Historic Park, California Charles N. Alpers; Charles N. Alpers U.S. Geological Survey, California Water Science Center, Sacramento, California, U.S.A., cnalpers@usgs.gov Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Perry A. Myers; Perry A. Myers California Department of Toxic Substances Control, Sacramento, California, U.S.A. Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Daniel Millsap; Daniel Millsap California Department of Parks and Recreation, Sacramento, California, U.S.A. Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Tamsen Burlak Regnier Tamsen Burlak Regnier Clean Harbors, San Diego, California, U.S.A. Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry (2014) 79 (1): 553–587. https://doi.org/10.2138/rmg.2014.79.13 Article history first online: 09 Mar 2017 Cite View This Citation Add to Citation Manager Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Search Site Citation Charles N. Alpers, Perry A. Myers, Daniel Millsap, Tamsen Burlak Regnier; Arsenic Associated with Historical Gold Mining in the Sierra Nevada Foothills: Case Study and Field Trip Guide for Empire Mine State Historic Park, California. Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry 2014;; 79 (1): 553–587. doi: https://doi.org/10.2138/rmg.2014.79.13 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Refmanager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentBy SocietyReviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry Search Advanced Search The Empire Mine, together with other mines in the Grass Valley mining district, produced at least 21.3 million troy ounces (663 tonnes) of gold (Au) during the 1850s through the 1950s, making it the most productive hardrock Au mining district in California history (Clark 1970). The Empire Mine State Historic Park (Empire Mine SHP or EMSHP), established in 1975, provides the public with an opportunity to see many well-preserved features of the historic mining and mineral processing operations (CDPR 2014a). A legacy of Au mining at Empire Mine and elsewhere is contamination of mine wastes and... You do not have access to this content, please speak to your institutional administrator if you feel you should have access.

The "grand excursion" of the Fifth International Geological Congress (1891): Celebrating geological exploration of the American West

The first International Geological Congress (IGC) ever to be convened in North America (5 th IGC, Washington, D.C., 1891) allowed American geologists to present results of pioneering mapping in the American West to an international community in a field setting. A 25-day “grand excursion” by rail and stagecoach across the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains to Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon for some 90 participants was organized by Samuel F. Emmons who had earlier served with the Fortieth Parallel Survey. Other trip leaders were G. H. Williams and I. C. White (Appalachian geology), J. P. Iddings (Montana geology), Arnold Hague (Yellowstone National Park), G. K. Gilbert (Basin and Range faulting, history of pluvial Lake Bonneville, and Niagara Falls region), J. W. Powell (Grand Canyon region), and C. W. Cross (Colorado geology). The stature of the U.S. Geological Survey in this golden age of geology was reflected in the large proportion of its members among IGC field-trip leaders and/or guidebook contributors.

Resolution of Respect: Professor Paul Schultz Martin 1928–2010

Resolution of Respect: Professor Paul Schultz Martin 1928–2010

Developing Workbook-style Field Trip Guidebook in Undergraduate Geography

Developing Workbook-style Field Trip Guidebook in Undergraduate Geography

A Guide to Selected Sources of Information on Stone Used for Buildings, Monuments, and Works of Art

Interest in stone used for buildings, monuments, and works of art as an educational resource has increased in recent years. Many publications are now available for those seeking to compile geological information on such stone. Collections of building stone are also available for examination, although collections in the United States have unfortunately fallen into disfavor. Relevant literature includes regional studies of dimension stone, walking-tour guides, field-trip guides to quarries, lists of trade names, commercial publications, catalogs of museum collections, and books on art and architecture. Because of the availability of these sources of information and model guidebooks, this is an optimal time for those wishing to develop educational programs centered on stone used for buildings, monuments, and works of art. This bibliographical essay, which refers to over 270 publications, is intended as an introduction to the literature of the field. Emphasis is on English-language materials of relevance to N...

A Field Trip Guide: The Geology of Building Stones in Metropolitan Areas

A Field Trip Guide: The Geology of Building Stones in Metropolitan Areas

Developments in Arkansas and North Louisiana in 1949

Wells drilled during 1949 in Arkansas and North Louisiana totaled 1,804, seven less than in 1948 when 1,811 wells were drilled. The 1948 total was 35 per cent greater than 1947. There were 193 wildcats drilled in 1949; of this total, 81 were drilled in Arkansas and 112 in North Louisiana. In 1948, 220 were drilled; of this number 106 were in Arkansas and 114 in North Louisiana. There were 203 producers completed in Arkansas and 1,120 in North Louisiana for 1949. In 1948, 144 producers were completed in Arkansas and 1,173 in North Louisiana. In Arkansas, 7 new fields were discovered. Of these, 4 were new oil fields, 2 were new gas fields, and one was a distillate field. In addition, 4 new oil zones in oil fields were added. No new gas or distillate-producing zones were discovered. In North Louisiana, 8 new oil fields, 1 new gas field, and 2 new distillate fields were discovered. Seven new oil zones, 4 new gas zones, and 4 new distillate zones were added to existing fields. New fields and new producing zones in old fields totaled 37 for the area in 1949. There were 33 in 1948. Geophysical activity in Arkansas totaled 592 crew weeks, of which the seismograph contributed 397 weeks, the gravity meter 72 weeks, the magnetometer 47 weeks, and the core drill 76 weeks. In North Louisiana, crew weeks totaled 1,245, of which 916 were contributed by the seismograph, 271 by the gravity meter, and 58 by the core drill. No magnetometer crews were reported in North Louisiana. In the area, total crew weeks of geophysical activity were 2,010 in 1948; this is comparable with 1,837 in 1949. The Seventeenth Annual Field Trip Guide Book on the Cretaceous of Austin, Texas, Area was published by the Shreveport Geological Society.