An exercise in measuring strike and dip

The new ELI this week is Mapping structures on the playing field An exercise in measuring strike and dip.’


This ELI demonstrates how to use a school field (or any open space) for practice in measurements in order to work out a geological structure.

Other related activities can be found in our categories ‘Deformation – folding faulting’ and in ‘Investigating the Earth – fieldwork and mapwork.’

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