Field Mapping Training

• Credit value: 15 credits at Level 5
• Convenor: Professor Gerald Roberts
• Assessment: notebooks, field maps, cross-sections and rock descriptions made in the field

In this module you will gain experience of techniques involved in geological fieldwork during one of our three Easter field classes. You will be assessed on performance in the field (accuracy of observations and records) and quality of interpretation during and immediately following the field class by the field class leader in consultation with demonstrators (if any).

Techniques taught and assessed include:

• geological mapping in a variety of terrains and at a variety of scales using base maps and aerial photographs
• recording geological structures on maps and aerial photographs and on photographs of vertical sections
• the field description and logging of sedimentary, metamorphic and igneous rocks.

You will need a hard hat, hand lens, field notebooks, compass, clinometer, pencils, mapping pens, tape measure and geological hammers.