Field trip guide to Boone County, 1971
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"The main purpose of any geologic field work is to observe, and hopefully, after careful observation, to describe logically all features, and to explain their origin. This guide is intended to stimulate the student to make his own observations, and to test various hypotheses in light of what he has seen. Each question was written to illuminate an important geological concept; it is much more important that the student understand the concept than that he have a completely filled in workbook and have little or no comprehension of what he observed. Ideally, this guide will require that he hypothesize, question, reject, or accept on the basis of his own observations. This field trip guide serves as a practical series of lab exercises for the Principles of Geology course taught at the University of Missouri - Columbia. The exercises are designed as a sequence of increasingly difficult questions, each emphasizing the scientific method of inquiry. Each exercise is also designed to be self explanatory, so that any individual or group that is interested in visiting these locations may do so independently. The trip to the Columbia Brick and Tile Plant is on private property, and permission to enter should be obtained before any individual or group plans this trip. The other field trips are on public land, and no special permission is usually necessary. One important point, however, does apply to Rockbridge State Park. Anyone entering the Devil's Icebox or any of the other caves in the park must sign a release form available from the Park Superintendent's office before entering the cave. Each exercise is set up so that all pertinent observations and notes can be made within 1 1/2 hour time limit, if the student has read the exercise before the field trip and made himself familiar with the problems. Several of the exercises require work at home from the field. after data have been collected from the field."--Introduction.
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