[Ebook PDF] Laboratory Manual for Introductory Geology, 4th Edition

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Laboratory Manual for Introductory Geology, 4th Edition

ISBN-13: 978-0393617528
ISBN-10: 0393617521

Author: Allan Ludman (Author), Stephen Marshak (Author)

This lab manual offers a variety of activities for an active, applied student experience and increased flexibility for instructors. Every lab includes “What Do You Think?” exercises in which students apply the course concepts to real-world scenarios. New Geotours Google Earth exercises get students exploring and analyzing real-world sites. A new, unique chapter on global change in which students explore how the Earth will evolve during their lifetime has been added to this edition. This purchase offers access to the digital ebook only.

PREFACE
This laboratory manual is based on our collective 70-plus years of teaching and coordinating introductory geology courses. Those experiences have helped us understand not only how students best learn geologic principles, but also how to stimulate their engagement with the material to enhance their learning process. Our manual provides (1) an up-to-date, comprehensive background that addresses
the hands-on tasks at the core of any introductory geology course; (2) patient stepby-step explanations that are more easily understood by students than those in textbooks; (3) text and exercises that lead students to think like geologists, engaging them in solving real-life problems important to their lives; and (4) the passion and excitement that we still feel after decades as teachers and geologists.
Students often ask us how we maintain this enthusiasm. Our answer is to share with them both the joys and frustrations of facing and solving real-world geologic problems. You will find many of those types of problems in the following pages—modified for the introductory nature of the course, but still reflecting their challenges and the rewards of solving them. This manual brings that experience directly
to the students, engaging them in the learning process by explaining concepts clearly and providing many avenues for further exploration.
Unique Elements
As you read through this manual, you will find a pedagogical approach that incorporates many unique elements, which distinguishes it from other manuals. These elements include: Hands-on, inquiry-based pedagogy We believe that students learn science best by doing science, not by just memorizing facts.
New “Geotours” Google Earth activities in each lab, authored by M. Scott Wilkerson of DePauw University, allow students to apply the concept knowledge gained through their lab and lecture work to real-life sites and phenomena, as a geologist would. The updated “What Do You Think?” exercises in each chapter engage students in making assessments and decisions on topics relevant to their own lives, such as selecting building codes appropriate for local earthquake hazards (Ch. 2); determining how technological advances that have altered demands for various mineral resources have impacted their community (Ch. 3); and explaining what unforeseen and unintended results accompany human interactions with natural processes (Ch. 13). Innovative exercises that engage students and provide instructors with choice
Tiered exercises are carefully integrated into the text, leading students to understand concepts for themselves by first reading about the concept and then immediately using what they just learned in the accompanying exercise. These unique exercises show students how important geologic principles are in our everyday activities. There are more exercises per chapter than can probably be completed in
a single lab session. This is done intentionally, to provide options for instructors during class or as potential out-of-class assignments. The complexity and rigor of the exercises increase within each chapter, enabling instructors to use the manual for both non-majors and potential majors alike. Just assign the exercises that are most appropriate for your student population.
Superb illustration program Readers have come to expect a superior illustration program in any Norton geology text, and this manual does not disappoint. The extensive and highly illustrative photos, line drawings, maps, and DEMs continue the tradition of Stephen Marshak’s Earth: Portrait of a Planet and Essentials of Geology.
Reader-friendly language and layout Our decades of teaching introductory geology help us to identify the concepts that are most difficult for students to understand. The conversational style of this manual and the use of many real-world analogies help to make these difficult concepts clear and enhance student understanding. The crisp, open layout makes the book more attractive and reader-friendly than other laboratory manuals, which are crammed with pages of multiple-column text.
Unique lab on global change A new capstone lab on global change (Ch. 18) combines our understanding of the past and present to look to the future—not in geologic time, but rather within the next 50 years. The chapter addresses all components of the Earth System, with a particular emphasis on climate change and how changes in the atmosphere will potentially affect the hydrosphere, cryosphere, and biosphere. Exercises guide students to assess how the planet will likely change during their lifetimes, and to examine their role in furthering or mitigating those processes. The chapter ends with a series of thought-provoking questions designed to prepare students for their roles as intelligent citizens in evaluating issues they will face in the future. Unique mineral and rock labs Students learn the difference between minerals and rocks by classifying Earth materials in a simple exercise (Ch. 3). That exercise then leads to the importance of physical properties and a logical system for identifying minerals. In Chapter 4,
students make intrusive and extrusive igneous “rocks,” clastic and chemical sedimentary “rocks,” and a foliated metamorphic “rock” to understand how the rockforming processes are indelibly recorded in a rock’s texture. The goal in studying
rocks in Chapters 5–7 is to interpret the processes and conditions by which they
form, not just to find their correct names.
Digital elevation models (DEMs)
Digital elevation models are used to enhance the understanding of contour lines
and to build map-reading skills.