QUICK TIPS FOR WHAT TO PUT IN YOUR FIELD NOTEBOOK
This page gives links to resources that will help to develop your skills in keeping a systematic record of
activities carried out in the field. resources include links to virtual fieldwork sites, information about field
sketching and sampling techniques, self study packages and information sheets that can be printed off as
field recording sheets or to be used as aides mémoire.
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GRAPHIC LOGS
A GOOD FIELD NOTEBOOK
CHECKLIST FOR DESCRIBING ROCKS
CLASSIFICATION & NAMING OF ROCKS
SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURES
CHECKLIST FOR DESCRIBING
FOLDS AND FAULTS
FIELDWORK SAFETY
VIRTUAL FIELDWORK
SAMPLING TECHNIQUES
MAPS
REFERENCES
OTHERS
Planar crossbedding
Trough crossbedding
How Geoscientists think and learn.
http://serc.carleton.edu/serc/EOS-90-31-2009.html
Houghton JJ; Lloyd GE; Robinson A; Gordon CE;
Morgan DJ (2015) The Virtual Worlds Project:
Geological mapping and field skills, Geology Today, 31,
pp.227-231. doi: 10.1111/gto.12117
Teaching Geoscience through Fieldwork. Rob Butler.
https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/sites/default/files/ge
es_guides_rb_teaching_geoscience.pdf
2. Geological fieldwork reference books
Geological Field Techniques
Angela L. Coe (Editor), 2010
ISBN: 9781444330618
(Available as an e book)
The Geological Field Guide Series: Basic Geological
Mapping, 5th Edition
Richard J. Lisle, Peter Brabham, John W. Barnes, 2011
ISBN: 9780470686348
The Geological Field Guide Series: Sedimentary Rocks
in the Field: A Practical Guide, 4th Edition
Maurice E. Tucker, 2011
ISBN: 9780470689165
The Geological Field Guide Series: The Field
Description of Igneous Rocks, 2nd Edition
Dougal Jerram, Nick Petford, 2011
ISBN: 9780470022368
FIELD SKETCHING
Sample field sketches from this package:
folds at Valley
fold & graben
at Porth Saint
dyke at Traeth Bychan
dykes at Porth y Post
folds at
Rhosneiger
folds at Cwm Tydu
dipping beds &
way-up at
Aberystwyth
Geological Survey maps