ANNUAL REPORT 2008 - Jackson School of Geosciences - The ...

GeoFORCE Annual Report 2008
9th Grade Young Geoscientists
Our 9th grade Young Geoscientist class
brought a new group of students eager and
excited to learn about the geology in their local
surroundings.
The purpose of our 9th grade Young Geoscientist
program is to expose the students to basic
geological terms and processes. Students from
both our Southwest and Houston programs
received a true hands-on experience in the
Southwest Texas area. They were able to apply
basic geological concepts they learned in
the classroom and put them to use in the field
at sites such as the Knippa Traprock Quarry
where they viewed columnar joints and the Del
Rio Formation where they discovered fossil
hash.
The 49 students in the 2012 9th grade Young
Geoscientist class represented many schools
from the two regions. The Houston program
hosted 15 students from 9 middle schools
within the 5 regions of the Houston Independent
School District. Our 2012 Southwest 9th
grade Young Geoscientist had 34 students
attend the trip. These students represented 8
different middle schools and junior high schools
from our targeted region.
9th grade Young Geoscientists at (left to right) Vulcan Asphalt Quarry, Vulcan Knippa Quarry, and the Del Rio Formation.
Locations in Texas
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Blackwater Hole, Uvalde
Vulcan Materials Knippa Traprock Quarry, Knippa
Del Rio Formation, Uvalde
Fort Ing, Uvalde County
Leona River, Uvalde
Bat Cave at Annandale Ranch, Concan
Vulcan Materials Asphalt Quarry, Dabney
Geology Learned
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Meander
Point bar
Cutbank
Karst
Watershed
Terrace
Aquifer
Water table
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Magma
Basalt
Columnar joints
Igneous rock
Sedimentary rock
Quarry
Limestone
Floodplain volcano
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Deposition
Differential erosion
Lithification
Uniformitarianism
Law of Superposition
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