Basin-scale Controls on Sedimentary Architecture, Jurassic Tank
This activity was selected for the On the Cutting Edge Exemplary Teaching Collection
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- Scientific Accuracy
- Alignment of Learning Goals, Activities, and Assessments
- Pedagogic Effectiveness
- Robustness (usability and dependability of all components)
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This page first made public: Jul 14, 2005
Skills and concepts that students must have mastered
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Content/concepts goals for this activity
- explain how Jurassic Tank works, why it was built, and how it can be used to link the real world (outcrops and subsurface, well data) with numerical models of basin-scale sedimentation.
- interpret a cross section diagram in terms of changes in base level, subsidence, or sediment supply.
- link specific, real-world depositional environments to parts of a cross section diagram and understand how they respond to changes in base level, subsidence, or sediment supply.
- apply sequence stratigraphic concepts and terminology to a cross section diagram.
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- Project Description Handout (Acrobat (PDF) 752kB Jul6 05)