MAIN PAGE for information about October 2016 – Earth Science Outside –
Tooele County Geology and heritage
MASTER LIST of file:
Here is the most recent SCHEDULE and LOCATIONS (as of 10/6/2016)... below the schedule are the links to handouts, etc.
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Wednesday, October 5 How to read a Tooele landscape. |
Meet: Tooele School District headquarters 92 S. Lodestone Way, Tooele, UT 84074 |
Tooele’s awesome geology! Bedrock versus sediment; Evidence of Ice Age climate; Interpret relative age of geologic features. |
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Thursday, October 6 Ophir Canyon – Tectonics past |
Meet: at intersection of Highway 73 and Ophir Canyon Rd. Carpool with stops to Ophir. |
Ophir Canyon’s magnificent anticline! Architecture of the Earth. Mountain building during dinosaur time scrunched the bedrock of Tooele County. |
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Wednesday, October 12 Tooele Valley – Tectonics today! |
Meet: Grantsville Elementary 50 S Park Street, Grantsville, UT 84029 |
Extensional tectonics mean earthquakes! Dance of tectonic plates; Evolution of the Basin and Range; Tooele’s evidence. |
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Thursday, October 13 Landforms and Tooele history |
Meet: Settlement Canyon Elementary 935 W Timpie Rd, Tooele, UT 84074 |
This is the place? Landforms and pioneer heritage. Erosion and deposition. Canyons, alluvial fans and deltas. Landscape evolution and heritage. |
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Wednesday, October 19 Fossils, minerals, rocks and heritage |
Meet: Stockton Town Hall parking area 18 N Johnson St, Stockton, UT 84071 Carpool and drive to fossil locale |
What made Colonel Connor look for riches? Minerals are the building blocks of rocks, and of society. Fossils tell about Utah long ago. |
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No session Thursday October 20 (UEA) |
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Wednesday, October 26 What’s there to see? |
Meet: Vernon Elementary Vernon, UT 84080 |
Every Tooele place has deep history! Tie landforms and features to a sense of place. Sheepcreek Mountains. Lake Bonneville. |
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Thursday, October 27 Water and Tooele geology |
Meet: Rose Springs Elementary 5349 Insbrook Pl, Stansbury Park, 84074 |
Glimpse what we don’t see… why springs? Earth systems interact: geology and hydrology; Tooele’s valley sediments, groundwater, and springs. |
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ADDITIONAL LINKS that may be of interest:
WAIVER... to participate in workshop... every outdoor workshop has inherent hazards. SAFETY first.
For the Wednesday October 5 session… the handout; teachers' attendance sheet... no audio files (yet).
For the Thursday, October 6 session: Ophir Canyon… tectonics past and present, here are: the handout; teachers' attendance sheet; and a list of the audio files with background information about tectonics past and present... AND the chart also links to the files.