🎓To Students

To Students:

This lab manual was designed for you and we hope you enjoy the California-centric material and mix of hands-on and online activities. Whether you live in southern, central, or northern California, you have access to spectacular geology; get out and explore your local region (if safe to do so). Upon completion of this course, we hope you recognize the importance of the Geosciences to our modern life and society and begin to see the incredible potential of geology.

This manual uses the browser version of Google Earth Links to an external site.. To familiarize yourself with this program, read through Google’s help page Links to an external site. and play around within the program itself. Each chapter will contain bolded and/or hyperlinked Links to an external site. key terms. Some chapters will have a “Can You Dig It” (CYDI) section, which contain topical items typically of interest to students.

Most students remain unaware of geology career options. In this manual, we have included sections in each chapter illustrating career possibilities and how to pursue those opportunities. For detailed career information read through the following.