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Sedimentary Processes, Rocks, and Topographic Maps and
Environments 153 Orthoimages 227
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ACTIVITY 6.1 Sedimentary Rock Inquiry 154 ACTIVITY 9.1 Map and Google Earth Inquiry 228
ACTIVITY 6.2 Mount Rainier Sediment ACTIVITY 9.2 Map Locations, Distances, Directions,
Analysis 154 and Symbols 228
ACTIVITY 6.3 Clastic and Detrital Sediment 154 ACTIVITY 9.3 Topographic Map Construction 239
ACTIVITY 6.4 Biochemical and Chemical Sediment ACTIVITY 9.4 Topographic Map and Orthoimage
and Rock 155 Interpretation 239
ACTIVITY 6.5 Sediment Analysis, Classification, and ACTIVITY 9.5 Relief and Gradient (Slope)
Interpretation 155 Analysis 246
ACTIVITY 6.6 Hand Sample Analysis and ACTIVITY 9.6 Topographic Profile Construction 246
Interpretation 160
ACTIVITY 6.7 Grand Canyon Outcrop Analysis and L ABOR A T OR Y 10
Interpretation 163
ACTIVITY 6.8 Using the Present to Imagine the Past— Geologic Structures, Maps, and Block
Dogs to Dinosaurs 163
ACTIVITY 6.9 Using the Present to Imagine the Past— Diagrams 259
Cape Cod to Kansas 166 ACTIVITY 10.1 Geologic Structures Inquiry 260
ACTIVITY 6.10 “Reading” Earth History from a ACTIVITY 10.2 Visualizing How Stresses Deform
Sequence of Strata 167 Rocks 260
ACTIVITY 10.3 Map Contacts and Formations 261
L ABOR A T OR Y 7 ACTIVITY 10.4 Determine Attitude of Rock Layers and
a Formation Contact 262
Metamorphic Rocks, Processes, and ACTIVITY 10.5 Cardboard Model Analysis and
Interpretation 263
Resources 187
ACTIVITY 10.6 Block Diagram Analysis and
ACTIVITY 7.1 Metamorphic Rock Inquiry 188 Interpretation 263
ACTIVITY 7.2 Metamorphic Rock Analysis and ACTIVITY 10.7 Nevada Fault Analysis Using
Interpretation 189 Orthoimages 263
ACTIVITY 7.3 Hand Sample Analysis, Classification, ACTIVITY 10.8 Appalachian Mountains Geologic
and Origin 196 Map 263
ACTIVITY 7.4 Metamorphic Grades and Facies 198
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Stream Processes, Landscapes, Mass
Dating of Rocks, Fossils, and Geologic Wastage, and Flood Hazards 283
Events 207
ACTIVITY 11.1 Streamer Inquiry 284
ACTIVITY 8.1 Geologic Inquiry for Relative Age ACTIVITY 11.2 Introduction to Stream Processes and
Dating 208 Landscapes 284
ACTIVITY 8.2 Determining Sequence of Events in ACTIVITY 11.3 Escarpments and Stream Terraces 284
Geologic Cross Sections 208 ACTIVITY 11.4 Meander Evolution on the Rio
ACTIVITY 8.3 Using Index Fossils to Date Rocks and Grande 284
Events 212 ACTIVITY 11.5 Mass Wastage at Niagara Falls 292
ACTIVITY 8.4 Absolute Dating of Rocks and ACTIVITY 11.6 Flood Hazard Mapping, Assessment,
Fossils 214 and Risk 295
ACTIVITY 8.5 Infer Geologic History from a New
Mexico Outcrop 216
ACTIVITY 8.6 CSI (Canyon Scene Investigation)
Arizona 216

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