DAY 1 Field Trip to the Baton Rouge Fault
Goals:
to incorporate basic geological knowledge of faults through
group discussion, reading maps, GPS co-ordinates and interpreting an
urban landscape
9:00
a.m. Introduction to Fault types and their association with
different Plate Tectonic Margins. Case Study of a faulting continental
margin: northern Gulf of Mexico Coast -
Slide PRESENTATION in ROOM
E207 or equivalent.
10.00 a.m. Traverse Baton Rouge using LiDAR, USGS topographic maps and
GPS instrument to locate fault-line scarp
Noon-1.00 p.m. Lunch in town adjacent to College Drive fault line
scarp
Afternoon:
Goals:
By the next morning, the students will need to design a
field experiment for detecting a fault. Each student group must bring a
cleanly illustrated design of a 24-channel geophone detector and source
array justified by ½ page of written text explanation.
Content: Principles of reflection and refraction seismic
method. Students will set up a sample seismic experiment. Students will
set off small seismic charges, hit aluminum striker plates with a sledge
hammer, a steel I-beam, and an accelerated ram mounted on an all-terrain
vehicle. Students will lay out phones on steel sleds on the southern
side of Howe-Russell Building near the loading dock.
10 points Participation in discussion
DAY 2 Field Day (weather permitting)
Goals:
Discussion of experiment design and Data collection (everyone)
Implementation of experiment in the field
6.00 a.m. TA’s and instructor start loading vehicles. A truck will be
used to tow trailer and seismic equipment. Another field vehicle will
carry students.
8.00 a.m. (SHARP) Depart Howe-Russell Building
Lunch in the field
6.00 p.m. return to Howe-Russell Building
Teaching Assistants and instructor unload vehicle
10 points - Participation in discussion and data collection –
30 points - Field design
DAY 3 Seismological theory for analysis of seismic data
Goals:
Associate seismic data with the geological problem by studying data
collected the previous day through classical geometric techniques,
internal group interpretation and intra-group presentation and analysis
of results
8.30 a.m. TA’s and Instructor meet to make paper copies of
previous day’s field work.
9.30 a.m. Analysis of seismic data (I) - Overview of Refraction
Techniques
10.30 a.m. Exercise using seismic data collected by
students (pencil, paper, and calculator LAB) Individual students
turn in the results of their exercise
Noon-1.00 p.m. lunch
1.30 p.m. Analysis of seismic data (II)- Overview Reflection
Techniques
2.30 p.m. Exercise of seismic data collected by students
(pencil, paper, and calculator LAB) Individual students turn in the
results of their exercise
3.30 p.m. Tour of Subsurface Lab and seismic software
tools
4.00 p.m. Break-up into groups. Group discussion of key
findings – 5 minutes each
4.30 p.m. Group presentation (5 minutes each)
10 points Exercises
20 points Group presentation
20 points Tidy, legible, notes on all the work they have done
– DUE the following morning
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