How exactly to measure geologic features with the compass


Assignment task: Find a suitable well lit area with a prominent tilted or inclined plane. This can be a manmade or architectural feature (cap stones on a stairway wall outside Payson Smith, part of a tombstone, roof of a dog house or a tilted picnic table top for instance) or an actual geologic feature (some exposed fracture surface or distinctive layering plane in a rock exposure). These features can he gently tilted or steeply tilted but dip values that are too small and near horizontal (zero degrees) or too large and near vertical (90 degrees) will be more difficult to measure. Please keep in mind that the Compass Powerpoint instructions use a N45E415E dipping layer as a demonstration on how exactly to measure geologic features with the compass. Please do not use an inclined featurewith the same NE strikeand SE dip direction as depicted in the Compass PowerPoint. If you are going to use an inclined plane with a SE dip direction then make sure that the strike direction is far different than N45E. I don't want you to simply copy the pictures from the instructions. I really want to see that you can do this on your own for your own differently oriented planar surface.

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