GEOLOGY
FINAL DIAGRAM/DIORAMA
COMMUNITY, EMPATHY, THINKING, BALANCE
Your final for Geology will consist of two parts:
1. Two days of field practicum
a. Identification and description of rocks and minerals
b. Identification and description of geological processes
2. A diagram or diorama that connects major concepts from this semester.
Diagram/Diorama
If you choose to do make a 2D diagram you need to meet the following requirements:
 Be no smaller than 11” x 15” and no larger than 15” x 22”.
 Be made by hand (no collage, or print-outs).
If you choose to do make a 3D diorama you need to meet the following requirements
 Be no smaller than 11” x 11” x 15” and no larger than 15” x 15” x 22”.
 Include mainly handmade features (no toy plastic mountains).
Regardless of which project you choose, you also need to meet these requirements:
 Be based on a landscape, not a disjointed collection of pictures.
 Be in full color.
 Include clear typed or written labels for all important features.
 Be original work. Do not copy diagrams off the internet or out of books.
 Turn in on time.
 Be serious and factually correct (do not show dinosaurs and humans together).
These are the features/concepts/terms that your diagram/diorama must contain:
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Rock cycle.
Principle of original
horizontality
Principle of linear
continuity
Principle of
Superposition
Intrusive igneous
features and processes
o Discordant
pluton
o Concordant
pluton
o Sill
o Dyke
o Batholith
o Lopolith
o Laccolith
o Magma
o Relationship
between grain
size and cooling
rate.
Extrusive igneous
features
o Lava
o Volcano
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Porphyritic
rocks
o Vesicular rocks
o Hot spots
Weathering
o Freeze-thaw
o Water
o Wind
o Plants
o Thermal
expansion
Erosion
o Water
o Wind
o Mass wasting
Sedimentary features and
processes.
o Strata
o Sediment
o Discontinuity
o Compaction and
cementation
Plate (as in, plate
tectonics)
Seduction of two plates,
and the results.
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Compression of two
plates, and the results
Tension between two
plates, and the results.
Shear
Brittle failure
Ductile deformation
Strike
Dip
Syncline
Anticline
Normal dip-slip fault.
Reverse dip-slip fault.
Strike-slip fault.
Joint.
Delta
Alluvial fan
Flood plane
Meander
Oxbow lake
Sandbar
Cut-bank