Group Project: Presentation Topic
- Due Aug 18, 2014 by 11:59pm
- Points 5
- Submitting a text entry box or a file upload
Your Field Trip Group will need to propose (and have approved) a presentation topic in advance of your Group Project: Presentation.
Topic Guidelines
Your group is welcome to choose any geology topic, but I must approve them. Submit your proposed topic at least 3 weeks in advance here.
The following rules apply:
- Topic choice must be scientific in nature; please no surfing presentations!) and fairly specific (“Cenozoic Geology in Coastal Northern California” as opposed to “The Geology of Northern California”).
- Topics will not be approved if they overlap substantially with those covered in class (e.g. general reports on volcanos, earthquakes, etc.).
- Research resources may include articles in scientific journals, books, the Internet, and even personal interviews with experts in the field.
See the list of possible topics below. The more specific, the better...
- Hydrothermal Vents
- Offshore Drilling for Petroleum and Natural Gas
- The formation of petroleum
- The formation of Coal
- Coastal erosion
- Some specific aspect of local geology
- Rising sea levels
- Faults in the area
- The possibility of new earthquake/volcanic activity at Mammoth Mountain
- Using sea-floor sediments to study climate change
- Using glacier ice cores to study climate change
- How the earth’s mantle moves the lithospheric plate
- Polarity Reversals of the Earth’s Magnetic Field
- The possibility of water on another planet/moon in our solar system
- Superplume Episodes in the Earth’s Geologic History
- The Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction
- The Permian-Triassic Extinction
- The Origins of Water on Earth
- Volcanic activity in and around Iceland
- Recent “hot-spot” activity in and around Hawaii
- Formation of diamonds
- Ground-water contamination
- Loss of ground-water resources
- The loss of local river water
- The geology of a specific national/state park
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