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- Third Party Resource Title: Visualizing Outcrop Patterns from Strike/Dip Data Using MATLAB
- Third Party Resource Link: https://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/data_models/matlab15/activities/114891.html
- Description: This lab activity allows students in an introductory structural geology class to explore strike-dip outcrop patterns on a map and in 3D. The topography is shown as a contour map; students decide on values for strike and a dip and select a point on the map where these would be measured. The app then shows the outcrop pattern of that plane on the map as well as a rotatable surface plot with both the topography and the plane. The activity encourages students to explore different values of strike and dip, and to work on paper and then compare their results to the model.
- Publish Year: 2015
- Institution: University of Toronto
