Friday, February 11, 2011

Reading the Past: Sequence Stratigraphy with the Po Plain project

Hands-on activity using magnification to sort samples and figure out clues to sea level change. Geologists use sediments to locate past sea levels. A National Science Foundation funded project at Virginia Tech is now adding fossil information to more precisely determine the depth of sea level as it changed in the Mediterranean Sea. Undergraduate interns developed this activity for kids, based on an activity from ANDRILL.

Museum of Geosciences

Llyn Sharp, Ceseley Haynes, New Intern Person

Virginia Tech

contact llyn@vt.edu

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