Geo sleuth lab presentation

1. Title
http://www.monmouth.com/~cathygrim/mystery.htm

2. M. d’Alessio, 2004Murder Mystery

3. Grand Canyon, Arizona, Copyright Larry Fellows http://www.earthscienceworld.org/imagebank/search/results.html?ImageID=hmwnq6
Originally
Horizontal
OLDEROLDER
YOUNGERYOUNGER
Timing
Layers on top of layers

4. Watching Layers Form
Larry Ridenhour, BLM/Jennifer Loomis, TERC
http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/content/investigations/es2903/es2903page03.cfm
es2903_p03_deposition.swf

5. Tilted Layers

6. USGS/Jennifer Loomis, TERCTilted limestone beds in the Mojave Desert, California
http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/content/investigations/es2903/es2903page04.cfm.
Watching Layers Tilt

7. Unconformity
Unconformity
Olympic Coast, Washington: 4th Beach near Kalaloch
Copyright Patti Bleifuss
http://patti.tensegrity.net/album/hoh/images/unconformity.jpg

8. Geologic Time
OLDEROLDER
YOUNGERYOUNGER
http://www.astro.lsa.umich.edu/users/cowley/grand33.jpg
270 Million Years Old
600+ Million Years Old
TIMING: RELATIVE vs. ABSOLUTETIMING: RELATIVE vs. ABSOLUTE

9. Fold
Fold
Marin Headlands, California -- Image from Roland Bürgmann
http://www.seismo.berkeley.edu/~burgmann/EPS116/labs/marin2004/Fold%20-%20John%20R%202.JPG

10. USGS/Tom Grace, TERCFolded layers in the Sangre de Cristo Range of Colorado.
http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/content/investigations/es2903/es2903page05.cfm?chapter_no=investigation
Watching Layers Fold

11. Cross Cutting
Grand Canyon, Arizona -- Copyright Ramón Arrowsmith
http://activetectonics.la.asu.edu/ramon/Images/Grand_Canyon/36grandcanyon.tif.jpg
Cross Cutting
MOST RECENT

12. Wind and Process
Death Valley, CA
Copyright Marli Miller
AGI Image Bank photo ha45z2 Zion, Utah
Copyright Marli Miller
AGI Image Bank photo ha45jb
http://www.msnucleus.org/membership/html/jh/earth/sedimentary/lesson5/sedimentary5d.html
PROCESSPROCESS
ANCIENTANCIENTPRESENTPRESENT
“The present is
the key to the
past.”
James Hutton
Famous Geologist
(lived 1726-1797)
http://www.physicalgeography.net/
fundamentals/10c.html

13. M. d’Alessio, 2004Murder Mystery