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MIT Course | Preview | Type of Activity | Instructional Approach | Content Area | SDG |
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| Lab 6: Geological Mapping | Introduction to Geology |
In this lab exercise on mapping, you’ll have the chance to get a fairly realistic picture of how geologists go about making a geological map. Think of the lab room as a land area of 10 km2 with no topographic relief. Assume that the land surface is the tabletops, but that there’s enough local relief for you to see bedrock outcrops (i.e. the rocks on the tables).
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Lab | Experiential Learning | Geology | SDG 15 - Life on Land |
| Lab 5: Earthquakes Parts 1 and 2 | Introduction to Geology |
The purpose of today’s lab is to explore the relationship between the velocity of seismic waves and the properties of the materials they travel through (Temperature, pressure, stiffness, density…). We will focus on seismic shear-waves (S-waves), which are elastic vibrations in the direction perpendicular to their direction of propagation. |
Lab | Experiential Learning | Geology | SDG 15 - Life on Land |
| Lab 4: Transport in Porous Media | Transport Processes in the Environment |
Objective: Use a tracer study to estimate the dispersion coefficient, pore velocity and porosity of a sediment column. |
Lab | Experiential Learning | Environmental Transport Processes | SDG 15 - Life on Land |
| Lab 4: Plate Tectonics | Introduction to Geology |
Lab on plate tectonics.
You have been assigned to one of four scientific specialties and to one of four plates or plate groupings. The scientific specialties are:
The plates or plate groupings are:
Each scientific specialty group has been provided a world map showing data relevant to locating plate boundaries and understanding plate boundary processes. Each student will be provided two blank maps. You will mark these as described below and turn them in at the end of the exercise. |
Lab | Experiential Learning | Geology | SDG 15 - Life on Land |
| Lab 3: Residence Time Distribution and System Circulation | Transport Processes in the Environment |
Objectives: Estimate detention time and nominal residence time in a model basin |
Lab | Experiential Learning | Environmental Transport Processes | SDG 15 - Life on Land |
| Lab 3: Geochronology | Introduction to Geology |
An introductory lab on geochronology from the course Introduction to Geology. |
Problem Set | Other | Geology | SDG 15 - Life on Land |
| Lab 2: Rock Identification | Introduction to Geology |
This lab constitutes four parts. In the first three sessions, you will familiarize yourselves with the characteristics of – and learn to describe, identify and interpret – the three main types of rock: igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic. |
Lab | Experiential Learning | Geology | SDG 15 - Life on Land |
| Lab 2: Measuring Velocity in a Channel | Transport Processes in the Environment |
Goals: Measure the mean velocity in the laboratory flume using two different methods, and determine whether these estimates agree within the uncertainty.
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Lab | Experiential Learning | Environmental Transport Processes | SDG 15 - Life on Land |
| Lab 1: Mineral Identification | Introduction to Geology |
Although more than 2,000 different mineral species have been identified, only 25 or 30 are abundant constituents of rocks. The purpose of this exercise is to acquaint you with these common rock-forming minerals. The most diagnostic physical properties of these minerals are listed in the Mineral Identification Index. |
Lab | Experiential Learning | Geology | SDG 15 - Life on Land |
| Lab 10: Atmosphere-Water Exchange | Transport Processes in the Environment |
You will estimate the rate of exchange between a water body (the flume) and the overlying air for two volatile compounds, molecular oxygen and chloroform. You will use an oxygen electrode to measure the changing concentration of oxygen, and gas chromatography (GC) to observe the concentration of chloroform. |
Lab | Experiential Learning | Environmental Transport Processes | SDG 15 - Life on Land |