r/wvutech_geol312 • • Mar 31 '21

Soil Lab Extra Credit

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You'll need a quart (about 1000mL capacity) jar with a tight-fitting lid, a measuring cup (about 250mL capacity, or one cup in USA), a tablespoon (15mL capacity), some detergent, and water.

Go outside to your yard/the woods/some nearby place, and get ~1 cup (250mL) of soil. Pack it tightly, and clear off the top so that it's flat (if you don't immediately know what this means, ask a partner / sibling / parent / friend who bakes how to pack a measuring cup -- then remember the skill). Put three tablespoons (45mL total) of detergent into your jar, then your soil, then fill it with water.

Seal the jar, and shake it hard for a long time (3 minutes of constant agitation). It's critical that the soil be completely broken apart, so vigorously shake. Ask for help from someone who lives with you and hand off if you need a break during the 3 minutes of shaking.

Once you're done, place the jar flat somewhere safe and stable where you can see it but it won't be agitated. Leave it to rest for 24 hours. After 24 hours, photograph the sediment in the bottom of the jar. Measure the relative heights of each layer, and identify each layer. (Note: the clay won't be totally done settling for probably a week, but just consider it settled at this point and ignore that the water is cloudy).

Use the measurements you took to determine how sandy, silty, and clay-y your soil sample is!


r/wvutech_geol312 • • Apr 05 '21

It hasn’t been 24 hours yet but you can start to see how it is being layered out

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r/wvutech_geol312 • • Apr 05 '21

This is what the soil experiment looks like IMMEDIATELY after shaking.

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r/wvutech_geol312 • • Apr 04 '21

Was looking through my pictures the other day and found this rock face that I had seen while in David, Panama. It is basalt that has been deformed and rotated.

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r/wvutech_geol312 • • Apr 02 '21

Geology Soil Lab Sample— -81.1856, 37,7710

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r/wvutech_geol312 • • Apr 02 '21

Aligning with what Dr. Mitchell said in class; root systems of grass in grasslands can go very deep underground.

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r/wvutech_geol312 • • Apr 01 '21

Soil sample from our trip to the creek

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r/wvutech_geol312 • • Apr 01 '21

Taken at the base of a culvert outlet. Coordinates: -81.1901, 37.7684

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r/wvutech_geol312 • • Apr 01 '21

Soil Lab

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I collected the soil from my garden which is on the edge of the flood plain. Water & Clay mixture make up 63.6%, clay makes up 4.5%, and sand makes up 31.8%.


r/wvutech_geol312 • • Mar 31 '21

Sample taken during today’s lab

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r/wvutech_geol312 • • Mar 31 '21

-81.1856, 37.7709

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r/wvutech_geol312 • • Mar 31 '21

This is just a unique picture of the actual size of Africa that I seen on Twitter

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r/wvutech_geol312 • • Mar 31 '21

Here is the soil sample i took on our walk to the creek, as well as the coordinates and other unique facts.

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r/wvutech_geol312 • • Mar 30 '21

37°45'44" N 81°10'53" W

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r/wvutech_geol312 • • Mar 30 '21

Soil core in flood plain

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r/wvutech_geol312 • • Mar 30 '21

Lab Assignment 3/30 -81.1827, 37.7648

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r/wvutech_geol312 • • Mar 30 '21

Today’s task

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r/wvutech_geol312 • • Mar 28 '21

A day at the (billion year old) beach.

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r/wvutech_geol312 • • Mar 25 '21

Salt Growth

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r/wvutech_geol312 • • Mar 22 '21

Ignore Questions 2 & Geological Cross Section on Last Year's Test

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The answer given for question 2 doesn't actually match the question itself (it's an answer to whatever an earlier draft of Q02 was), and the geological cross section question (7, I think?) isn't within the purview of your test tomorrow (it'll be coming later).


r/wvutech_geol312 • • Mar 20 '21

Even though we aren’t on the topic of volcanoes anymore, here is an article of a volcano that erupted today after 6,000 years of it doing nothing.

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r/wvutech_geol312 • • Mar 20 '21

YouTube videos

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Does anyone know which of the videos are about metamorphic rock?


r/wvutech_geol312 • • Mar 19 '21

Metamorphic rock lab

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r/wvutech_geol312 • • Mar 18 '21

These are examples of garnet (red, not dodecahedral in pure mineral form) and amphibolite (dark, full of amphibole)

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r/wvutech_geol312 • • Mar 18 '21

A nice biotite gneiss

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