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GEOL344: Fieldwork Preparation: Orientation and Safety
Pounawea, Swinburn and Nenthorn FIELDCLASSES 2015
This document serves several purposes:
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For you to give us names and addresses of contacts at home and to inform us of any problems you may have
that may affect your safety in the field.
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To enable you to orient yourself in advance of the Pounawea and Swinburn fieldclassess.
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To enable you to assess the general hazards and hazards at each of the field localities and to think about how
you will behave in the field to reduce the risks associated with each of these hazards.
Other documents (http://www.otago.ac.nz/geology/study/papers/index.html?papercode=geol344) on our website
may help you here. There is also a word version in case you want to complete it on a computer.
Procedure:
If you intend taking GEOL 344 you must complete the rest of the form and get it to Adrien Dever by 28th
November 2014. Paper copies can be collected from Adrien Dever. This form will contribute to your assessment
on the fieldclass: it will be marked like any other piece of work. This is mandatory preparation for GEOL344.
You will not be accepted onto GEOL344 unless you have completed this work to an acceptable level (ie you get a
pass mark). Ways of getting the work to Adrien:
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Hand it in to her.
Send by registered post to:
Adrien Dever - Academic Administrator
Geology Department
University of Otago
PO Box 56
Dunedin 9054
New Zealand
Email a pdf version (scanned or worked directly on the original documents) to geology@otago.ac.nz
Name your file: LASTNAME, initials-344-2015
You must send a single pdf file! Scan to a single pdf or get a pdf merger like PDFSaM
(http://www.pdfsam.org/download/). PDFSaM Instructions
Information we need
The data on this document will be made available to all staff on the fieldclass and will be kept for future reference.
If you have relevant information that you wish to remain discrete and would rather not put down in the next
section, please communicate problems by emailing Adrien Dever (adrien.dever@otago.ac.nz).
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Mobile phone number: ________________________________
Holiday time (December-January) address______________________________________________________
Email address:________________________________
Emergency contact at home:
Name:
Fax No:
Address:
Relationship:
Phone No:
List any illnesses/ injuries that may affect your safety in the field (Please include, asthma, hay fever or other
allergies, vertigo, poor eyesight, diabetes):
What precautions can you take in the field to reduce risk of problems associated with the above. Include listing
any medication you need to bring?
Do you have any special dietary requirements?
Do you have a tent you can bring to Swinburn? If so how many people are you happy to share it with?
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1. General Preparation
1.1 Equipment:
List what you will take into the field every day and at least one reason why you need each item.
Include items that relate to health and safety and items that relate to work. Bear in mind that we are
likely to be in the field from 9.00 to 18.00 each day irrespective of the weather.
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1.2 Genaral Hazards
Under each of the following subheadings list the hazards you can think off (bear in mind you will be in
a group) and the precautions that reduce the risk associated with those hazards.
1.2.1 Working in the intertidal zone
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1.2.2 Working by steep cliffs
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1.2.3 Working by roadsides
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1.2.4 Using Geological Hammers (we will have some and safety goggles that you can borrow).
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1.2.4 General hazards related to the weather
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1.3 Behaviour in Rural Areas
List aspects of your behaviour that are important in preserving the environment and maintaining good
relationships with farmers and other local people during the course of the fieldclass.
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1.4 Emergencies
a. On this fieldclass you will always be close to a group comprising half of the fieldclass. If there is
an accident or some other urgent problem arises, what should you do?
b.
What is meant by the ABC (or DRSABC) of first aid? Briefly explain the importance of this.
2. Itinerary: orientation and planning for specific hazards
The exact itinerary will depend upon weather and other factors. The exercises below will give you an
idea of where we are going, what the geology is and what specific hazards exist.
2.1 On the Pounawea fieldclass you will be working on coastal localities (see maps).
a.
Fill in the times (use the 24 hour clock and daylight savings time) and heights (in m) of high tide
and low tide and whether the tides are spring or neap for each of the days of the class where we
are working on the coast. Dates are included for both Pounawea A and B classes. Calculate the
tides for both classes.Tide tables and instructions on how to use them can be found at:
http://www.linz.govt.nz/hydro/tidal-info/tide-tables/calculate or use the tool at:
http://www.niwa.co.nz/services/online-services/tide-forecaster
Low tides
High tides
Spring/Neap
Low tides
High tides
Spring/Neap
Saturday 7th February
Sunday 8th February
Monday 9th February
Tuesday 10th February
Thursday 19th February
Friday 20th February
Saturday 21st February
Sunday 22nd February
b.
Outline in 3 to 4 lines how you have calculated the tide times.
c.
Explain what is meant by spring and neap tides.
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2.2 You are provided with geological and topographic maps of the broader Pounawea, Swinburn and
Nenthorn areas. The maps have 1km grids. The maps are incomplete because the scale is not marked
and North is not marked. At Pounawea we stay in Pounawea, in Swinburn we stay at Glenrowan.
Nenthorn is a day class.
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Add the missing information to make all the maps complete.
Annotate onto the topographic maps, neatly and clearly, the hazards that you can assess from the
maps (or from online resources listed below). If relevant make reference to your tide table. An
example hazard map can be seen at (http://www.otago.ac.nz/geology/admin-health-safety/fieldprocedures/index.html)
By reference to the geological map, suggest on the map, what age and type of rocks we will be
examining. Annotate this onto the appropriate maps. This is quite difficult using the printed
geological maps – you may want to enlarge the pdf version on screen.
Mark the maps in pencil so that changes can be made later if necessary. You will need to use the maps
each day of the fieldclass so ensure your work is neat. If you use symbols, make sure there is a key.
You may find it helpful to access some online resources to look at the maps in a wider context and to
look at the landscape via tools such as Google Earth:
http://www.topomap.co.nz/
This allows you to look at topo maps and/ or satellite imagery (and superpose the images).
https://maps.google.co.nz/
For map view with or without terrain and for satellite view.
http://www.google.com/earth/index.html
To download Google Earth. Flyovers, 3D views etc not available using the topomap site.
http://data.gns.cri.nz/geology/ (GNS Science New Zealand Geology Web Map)
Instructions for using the New Zealand Geology web map
You may wish (not needed but useful) to buy the relevant QMAP sheets (Geological map plus a book
explaining the geology). The relevant sheets are:
 Pounawea (only just creeps onto map): Geology of the Dunedin Area 1:250,000 editors D.G.
Bishop and I.M. Turnbull
 Swinburn: Geology of the Waitaki Area 1:250,000 editor P.J. Forsyth
You can get these from John Williams for $20 each. This is much less that the price direct from GNS
or from a bookshop (we get a discount for buying them 10 at a time).
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