Links for Print Edition

Google Earth Tutorial

  • Google Earth Pro: https://www.google.com/earth/versions/
  • Google Earth Image Use Guidelines: https://www.google.com/permissions/geoguidelines/

Introduction to Geology

  • Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta: https://www.apega.ca/
  • Virtual Roadtrip: https://barabus.tru.ca/geol2051/road_trip/road_trip.html
  • Future of Geoscience Poster: https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/~/media/shared/documents/education%20and%20careers/Resources/Posters/Geoscience%20for%20the%20Future%20poster.pdf?la=en

Lab 1

  • Plate boundaries map by Dale S. Sawyer: https://pressbooks.openeducationalberta.ca/app/uploads/sites/66/2020/06/plate-boundaries-numbered.11×17.pdf
  • Seismology map by Dale S. Sawyer: https://pressbooks.openeducationalberta.ca/app/uploads/sites/66/2020/06/earthquakes.11×17.pdf
  • Volcanology map by Dale S. Sawyer: https://pressbooks.openeducationalberta.ca/app/uploads/sites/66/2020/06/volcano.11×17.pdf
  • Seafloor age map by Dale S. Sawyer: https://pressbooks.openeducationalberta.ca/app/uploads/sites/66/2020/06/age.11×17.pdf
  • Topography/bathymetry map by Dale S. Sawyer: https://pressbooks.openeducationalberta.ca/app/uploads/sites/66/2020/06/topo.11×17.pdf
  • Table 1.1: https://pressbooks.openeducationalberta.ca/app/uploads/sites/66/2020/06/age.11×17.pdf

Lab 7

  • ICS time scale: http://www.stratigraphy.org/index.php/ics-chart-timescale
  • International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS): http://www.stratigraphy.org/
  • William Smith Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Smith_%28geologist%29

Lab 8

  • Elbow River Mapping Area satellite imagery: https://pressbooks.openeducationalberta.ca/app/uploads/sites/66/2020/06/Elbow-River-no-scale.pdf
  • Priddis NTS map: https://geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca/starweb/geoscan/servlet.starweb?path=geoscan/downloade.web&search1=R=242896

Lab 9

  • Sheep Mountain Mapping Area satellite imagery: https://pressbooks.openeducationalberta.ca/app/uploads/sites/66/2020/06/Sheep-Mountain-base-imagery-reduced-size.pdf
  • International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS): http://www.stratigraphy.org/
  • North American Stratigraphic Code: https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/Info/NACSN/05_1547.pdf
  • Virtual Landscape designed by the University of Leeds: http://www.see.leeds.ac.uk/virtual-landscapes/block/index.html
  • Sheep Canyon Geological Map: http://sales.wsgs.wyo.gov/geologic-map-of-sheep-canyon-quadrangle-wyoming-1986/

Appendix 1: List of Geologically Important Elements and the Periodic Table

  • Syngenta Period Table of Elements: http://www.syngentaperiodictable.co.uk/periodic-table.php?keyStage=5

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