DAY 1 Field Trip to the Baton Rouge Fault
9:00 Introduction to Fault types and their association with different Plate
Tectonic Margins. Case Study of a faulting continental margin: northern Gulf of
Mexico Coast - POWER POINT PRESENTATION in ROOM E207 or equivalent
Goal: to incorporate basic geological knowledge of faults through group discussion, reading maps, GPS co-ordinates and interpreting an urban landscape
10.00 Traverse Baton Rouge using LiDAR, USGS topographic maps and GPS instrument to locate fault-line scarp
Noon-1.00 Lunch in town adjacent to College Drive fault line scarp
Afternoon: Principles of reflection and refraction seismic method. Students will set up a sample seismic experiment. Students will set off small seismic charges, hit aluminum striker plates with a sledge hammer, a steel I-beam, and an accelerated ram mounted on an all-terrain vehicle. Students will lay out phones on steel sleds on the southern side of Howe-Russell Building near the loading dock.
Goal: By the next morning, the students will need to design a field experiment for detecting a fault. Each student group must bring a cleanly illustrated design of a
24-channel geophone detector and source array justified by ½ page of written text explanation.
10 points Participation in discussion
DAY 2 Field Day (weather permitting)
6.00 TA’s and instructor start loading vehicles. A truck will be used to tow trailer and seismic equipment. Another field vehicle will carry students.
8.00 (SHARP) Depart Howe-Russell Building
Goal: Discussion of experiment design and Data collection (everyone)
Lunch in the field
6.00 p.m. return to Howe-Russell Bldg.

TA’s and instructor unload vehicle
10 points - Participation in discussion and data collection –
DAY 3
30 points - Field design
Seismological theory for analysis of seismic data
8.30 TA’s and Instructor meet to make paper copies of previous day’s field work.
9.30 Analysis of seismic data (I) - Refraction Techniques
10.30 Exercise of seismic data collected by students (pencil, paper, and calculator
LAB) Individual students turn in the results of their exercise
Noon-1.00 lunch
1.301.30 Analysis of seismic data (II)- Reflection Techniques
2.30 Exercise of seismic data collected by students (pencil, paper, and calculator
LAB) Individual students turn in the results of their exercise
3.30 Tour of Subsurface Lab and seismic software tools
44.00 Break-up into groups. Group discussion of key findings – 5 minutes each
4.30 Group presentation (5 minutes each)
10 points Exercises
20 points Group presentation
20 points Tidy, legible, notes on all the work they have done – DUE the following morning