Cordilleran Section - 101st Annual Meeting (April 29–May 1, 2005)

Paper No. 4
Presentation Time: 9:00 AM-5:00 PM

DIGITAL GEOLOGY OF IDAHO: NEW WEB-BASED TEACHING TOOL


LINK, Paul K.1, KHAN, Shuhab D.2, DE GREY, Laura D.1, BOYACK, Diana L.3 and AMES, Daniel P.1, (1)Geosciences, Idaho State University, P.O. Box 8072, Pocatello, ID 83209, (2)Geosciences, University of Houston, 4800 Calhoun Rd. 312 S&R1, Houston, TX 77204-5507, (3)Geosciences, Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID 83209, linkpaul@isu.edu

The Digital Atlas of Idaho website (http://imnh.isu.edu/digitalatlas) now contains a NSF Geoscience Education-supported Digital Geology of Idaho link. This will become a self-contained teaching unit for an upper-division undergraduate Idaho Geology course. Fifteen topical units will contain PowerPoint units with text information and photographs, digital copies of published papers, and three-dimensional GIS-based flythroughs, all tied to a new 1:1,000,000-scale digital geologic map of Idaho.

These topical components include 1. Teton, Albion and Pioneer Ranges: Slices of the Middle Crust, 2. Mesoproterozoic Belt Supergroup; 3. Idaho's Mining Wealth: Silver Valley; 4. Accreted Terranes, Western Idaho Suture Zone and Hells Canyon; 5. Mesozoic Idaho Batholith; 6. Challis Magmatic Episode and Trans-Challis Mineralization; 7. Overthrust Belt; 8. Neogene Snake River Plain-Yellowstone Volcanic Province; 9. Columbia River Basalt Province; 10. Basin and Range Province; 11. Snake River Plain Aquifer; 12. Pleistocene Mountain Glaciation; 13. Palouse landscape and post-glacial climate change; 14. Lake Missoula Floods; 15. Lake Bonneville Flood. Self-contained web-based laboratory exercises for Physical and Historical Geology, and Physical Geography courses at Idaho State University and Lewis-Clark State College have been developed and are being improved using student knowledge surveys. Other parts of the website include maps and teaching data for an Idaho Historical Geography course.