Google earth pro | Geology homework help
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Geology 1401 Google Earth Project Fall 2023 Part 2 due Sunday 10/29 11:59 pm Administrative Items for your map and/or profile: • Remove Grid (Google Earth Menu: “View/Grid”): this is too many lines to have turned on when making
your map screenshots • Your specific PL:
o Feel free to change the color of your line o Turn off other student’s lines
- De-select unnecessary items from “Places” o For example, circles from our lab where we found the epicenter
- Orient GE North before making screenshots (see below for details) • Make sure you are viewing in vertical view (aka “Bird’s Eye View”) before making maps.
o Use the arrows top right of GE window to drive this. Tectonic Boundaries
- To help interpret what are the Tectonic Boundaries in your area, using the layer provided, you can click the “heading” (“Plate Boundaries”) for a legend (or “key”) to plate see boundary legend (colors):
Orient all Maps with “North UP”: Make sure your BM’s are oriented North before taking any screen shots:
- The “N” should be at “12 o’clock” or “due North.” • All maps involved in Earth Science are by standard oriented with North towards the top of the page. • You can “double-click” the “N” and GE will orient itself North:
Geology 1401 Google Earth Project Fall 2023
Part 2 Details:
You will begin your Earth Science-based interpretation of your profile line (“PL”) and base map (“BM”). You will be building on the displays you have begun to make with your PL and your BM. In general you will be making observations about what you see on your line and being to evaluate them by making Mini-Sections: