UFOP Annual Meeting

Sorry for the lack of posts lately but time has been extremely limited. But I did want to mention this.

The UFOP Annual Meeting is coming up in Price, UT.

College of Eastern Utah Prehistoric Museum and Holiday Inn

April 14 - 16, 2011

Early is over, unfortunately, but you can still sign up. Materials are located over at the official site. Click on over and check it out.

Simplifying Earthquakes

Here is a great post from Matt over at Research at a Snail's Pace (boy that is how I feel right now) breaking down earthquakes into a simple brick and spring model. This might make it to my classroom someday (If I can figure out how to jury-rig something similar.)

GeoJeopardy! Fridays #39

Time for GeoJeopardy! Fridays, because it's SPRING BREAK, wahoo!!

- Minerals -

Talc is at one end of the Mohs scale of hardness & this is at the other
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This phosphate popular in the jewelry of the Southwest U.S. derives its name from a Eurasian country

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Minerals like pyrite, galena & sphalerite all contain this element, S, so they are grouped together

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The white sands of New Mexico's White Sands National Monument are this plaster material
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A form of magnetite that has natural magnetic polarity is known as this "stone"

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GeoJeopardy Fridays #38

Time for GeoJeopardy! Fridays, because we are sandwiched in between St Patty's Day and My Birthday, so why not party.

- Geology -

This molten volcanic rock was given its name by those who lived around Mount Vesuvius

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The oxbow type of this is formed when a meander or stream is cut off from the principal channel

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A sonar transducer is used by hydrographers to obtain knowledge about earthquake activity here

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This "old" scientist's 37-volume "Historia Naturalis" covered all Roman knowledge of rocks & minerals

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It's believed that a land mass called Pangaea later split into 2: Laurasia & this one

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GeoJeopardy Fridays #37

Time for GeoJeopardy! Fridays, because I'm done with my PhD Qualification Written Exams, just the orals to go.

- Prehistoric Times -

Scientists have identified over 4,000 species of these "3-lobed" sea creatures that lived during the Paleozoic era

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Scientists say that North America had 4 of these: Nebraskan, Kansan, Illinoian & Wisconsin

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The Stone Age lasted until this metal replaced stone as the primary tool-making material

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In 1868 Louis Lartet dug up the first skeletons of this prehistoric man in a cave in Les Eyzies in southwest France

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The name of this earliest human species is Latin for "skillful human being"

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