Monday, September 24, 2012

The Montana-Yellowstone Geologic Field Guide Database

The Montana-Yellowstone Geologic Field Guide Database http://serc.carleton.edu/research_education/mtroadlogs/index.html For any college student majoring in the geophysical sciences, getting out into the field can be a key academic experience. This novel initiative, created by Carleton College's Science Education Resource Center (SERC), is a pilot project designed to make the field guide literature more accessible and useful to geoscience educators, students, and researchers. This site features published field guides and road logs for Montana and Yellowstone National Park, both of which are popular locations for summer field courses conducted by geology departments from San Diego, California to Orono, Maine. Visitors can search the database by topic, geographic location, and geologic province. Additionally, they can use the Top 10 area to find a list of the top ten geology field trips in the area based on geological interest, scenery, and general access. The site is rounded out by a collection of student exercises based on specific field localities in Montana. >From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2012. http://scout.wisc.edu/