EARTH: Urban Geology - An Emerging Discipline in an Increasingly Urbanized World

More than half of the total human population on Earth lives in urban areas, where, like rural areas, geology affects us every day. Yet when we think about "geology," most of us think of the hinterlands. That needs to change, argue the authors of a new feature in EARTH Magazine discussing what the role of urban geology is, what it can be and the potential role geoscience organizations can play in curating the geologic data revealed during construction, excavations and surveys.

Understanding Your Environment: Bedrock Geology Activity 7 - Geology of the United States

Here you will find resources to help educators and their students determine the ages of the rocks of the United States, Understand the general geology of the United States, Become familiar with some of the major physiographic provinces in the United States.

Understanding Your Environment: Bedrock Geology Activity 6 - Reading the Geologic History of Your Community

Here you will find resources to help educators and their students understand the basic principles used to determine the relative ages of rock units, understand the nature and significance of unconformities and their role in deciphering geologic history, interpret the geologic history of an area using the basic principles.

Understanding Your Environment: Bedrock Geology Activity 5 - Structural Geology and Your Community

Here you will find resources to help educators and their students describe the relationship between fault movement and forces that cause this motion, understand that Earth movements can create faults and folds, understand that models help scientists understand how things work.

Understanding Your Environment: Bedrock Geology Activity 4 - Rock Units and Your Community

Here you will find resources to help educators and their students understand that rocks are arranged in the Earth's crust as well-defined bodies or units, identify the general shapes of rockunits based on rock type, read and interpret geologic maps and geologic cross sections.

Understanding Your Environment: Bedrock Geology Activity 2 - Igneous Rocks and the Geologic History of Your Community

Here you will find resources to help educators and their students identify several igneous rocks using a rock chart, describe how the two main types of igneous rocks form, understand that igneous rocks are classified based on how they form, use a geologic map and legend to search for evidence of past igneous rock formations, understand that classification helps scientists organize the natural world into smaller workable components.

Understanding Your Environment: Bedrock Geology Activity 1 - Sedimentary Rocks and the Geologic History of Your Community

Here you will find resources to help educators and their students identify and classify several sedimentary rocks, describe how the three main types of sedimentary rocks form, understand that sedimentary rocks are divided into groups based on how they form, infer the environment in which sediment was deposited when you are given a sedimentary rock, understand that classification helps scientists organize the natural world into smaller workable components.

Understanding Your Environment: Bedrock Geology Activity 3 - Metamorphic Rocks and Your Community

Here you will find resources to help educators and their students to identify and classify several metamorphic rocks using a rock chart, describe two agents of metamorphism, use a geologic map to search for evidence of past metamorphism in a community, understand that properties of materials can change over time.

Understanding Your Environment: ERRATA

Here you will find corrections to the 2001 version of the Understanding Your Environment EarthComm textbook.

Understanding Your Environment: Bedrock Geology and Your Community- Storylines

Here you will find storylines for EarthComm: Understanding Your Environment: Bedrock Geology and Your Community- Storylines

American Geosciences Institute

bedrock geology