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So we're currently slightly north of
Cavan Property, it's in the Wee Jasper
area.
This is Structure and Field
Geology.
It's the first opportunity the
students have had to get in the field
and start mapping rocks.
The students
are here to make a geological map of
this region.
They're looking at the types
of rocks and measuring structures,
measuring orientations, thinking in 3D
and working out how this region was
deformed.
We take our students to a
location called the Shark's Mouth, a real
dramatic fold of rock just above the
river plain.
And kind of like a cake with
layers, when we cut through it we can see
the pattern.
So we go across a transect
of ground, and we look at how different
layers of the earth are laid and how
they're dipping.
To think in 3D is
fundamental for a geologist, and these
practical skills are so important.
When
you actually go out here and you see it
a lot of it does really click into place,
so you're sort of like "oh that's what
you meant, that's what you meant in the lecture,
that's what he was talking about."
It's
hard work, a lot of hours, but really fun.
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