Climate Data from Arctic Coring
These short activities reveal that data on past climates can be obtained from ice and sediment cores. A subset of…
Oh Brother, Is It Hot!
This lesson has students analyze data on cores taken from Brothers volcano, the site of IODP Expedition 376. The data…
How to Read a Rock, Vol. 2: A Free Graphic Novel
How to Read a Rock Vol. 2 follows up on How to Read a Rock Vol. 1, the nonfiction graphic novel…
Oceanic Crust and Age
Earthquakes and Plate Boundaries
From the Mountains to the Ocean
In 2004, a magnitude >9 earthquake struck North Sumatra and the Andaman-Nicobar islands leading to a huge tsunami. In order…
Modeling the Rock Cycle
The rocks that make up the Earth are constantly being recycled. One form of rock is often changed into another…
Density of Oceanic Crust
Certain properties of a substance are both distinctive and relatively easy to determine. Density, the ratio between a sample’s mass and…
An Expedition to the Seafloor
The goal of the Deep Sea Drilling Project was to investigate the sediments and rocks beneath the deep oceans by…
The Race is On…with Seafloor Spreading
Seafloor spreading is one component of the theory of plate tectonics. At mid-ocean ridges in many of the world’s oceans, new…