Lab 1: Measuring Strike&Dip and Bearing&Plunge/ Pace and Compass Mapping

I. Selected Internet Resources

• Steven Schimmrich's way cool Compass Tutorial and his most excellent Lines and Planes Tutorial. (Not currently online)
  

• Interactive strike and dip applet, from VisualEntities at the University of Wyoming.
  

• Everything you ever wanted to know about Magnetic Declination, via a list of Frequently Asked Questions.  A geomagnetic field F.A.Q. is also available from NOAA.
  
  
• See a global map of magnetic declination and track the magnetic north pole through time.
  

• The Brunton Company
  

II. Lab Materials

    PDF version of Lab 1

     Geologic time scale and template for quiz

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