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Maps and Landscape - S260/BLK1-02
This book looks at the interpretation of geological maps and the relationship between the landscape and underlying rocks. It also shows how the geological history of an area can be interpreted from a geological map. Topics covered: geological time and mapping; landscapes and geology; mapping geological structures; and case studies of Moreton-in-Marsh and Cheddar.
Pages: 98
ISBN: 9780749226794
Earth Materials - S260/BLK2-02
This book explores the nature of common minerals and rocks and introduces techniques for describing and identifying them. Topics covered: the crystalline state; crystal optics; exploring rock-forming minerals; igneous rocks; sedimentary rocks; metamorphic rocks and the rock cycle.
Pages: 103
ISBN: 9780749218812
Internal Processes - S260/BLK3-02
Focusing on the Earth's internal processes, this unit encompasses processes that occur below the Earth's surface or that are driven from below. Topics covered: plate tectonics; melting; intrusive and volcanic rocks; igneous provinces; metamorphism; rock structures; rock-deforming processes; how structures form and tectonic environments.
Pages: 143
ISBN: 9780749218829
Surface Processes - S260/BLK4-02
This unit xamines the sedimentary processes that act on the Earth's surface. Topics covered: the weathering process; sediments on the move; sediments from solution; from sediments to rocks; fossil classification and palaeobiology; fossilization; fossils as clues to past environments; alluvial environments; deserts; siliclastic coastal and continental shelf environments; shallow-marine carbonate and deep-sea environments.
Pages: 238
ISBN: 9780749218737
Map Extract Sheet - S260/METhe map extract sheet contains various examples of Ordnance Survey maps and conventional signs.
Publication Year: 1999
Pages: 1
ISBN: 9780749233730
Sedimentary Environments Poster - S260/SE-02
This poster illustrates the eight most important sedimentary environments on the Earth's surface today. For each environment, there is a block diagram showing the main features in plan view and vertical section.
Pages: 1
ISBN: 9780749218850
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Digital Kit and Digital Microscope CD-ROM Special Offer - S260-CDR/DIGBuy both Digital Kit and Digital Microscope CD-ROMs from the Discovering Geology range and save £10!
Digital Kit CD-ROM:
This fascinating virtual geological kit is presented as three 'sample boxes' containing: 30 rocks (igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary); 20 minerals; and 20 fossils. Students can investigate most of these 70 samples by 'picking them up' and 'turning them over' in three dimensions as though handling real specimens.
This CD-ROM also contains:
- a simple visual quiz to aid understanding
- an audio guide to pronunciation
- interactive labelling of key features
Digital Microscope CD-ROM:
'The Digital Microscope' allows students access to an expensive petrological microscope from their computer with 27 thin sections from the 'Digital Rock Kit' and almost 4000 high-quality colour images. A help menu explains how to use a geological microscope and a full 360 degree rotation of all samples is possible under a variety of microscope-viewing conditions.
All thin sections can be taken from their virtual storage drawers to be laid out on a simulated light box; viewed at x10 with a virtual hand lens and transferred to the digital microscope. Students can view samples under both normal, (polarised) light and between crossed polars but, unlike a conventional microscope, the same sample can be viewed under both conditions concurrently.
Computer Specification:
Pentium 100Mhz processor, Windows 98 SE operating system, 16Mb memory (RAM), hard disk drive with at least 100MB free for software, 2MB graphics card with colour monitor displaying to a resolution of 800x600, high colour, 6 x CD/DVD-ROM drive, sound card with speakers or headphones.
The multimedia software will run on an Apple Macintosh with the Classic Environment installed.
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Multi-user licences are not available for our CD-ROMs. However, multiple copies of the same CD-ROM may be bought at a discounted price. Please contact OUW Ltd for details.
ISBN: 9780749230807
Maps and Landscape - S260/CDR/A
In this CD-ROM, users will:- undertake virtual field trips in three different locations: Skye (UK), St Andrews (UK) and Big Bend, Texas (USA). On each trip, audio commentary guides students and they can discover close up features of interest
- learn field trip skills including compass and compass clinometer practice
- explore block diagrams of simple geological structures and their appearance on geological maps
- test their knowledge with a visual quiz on simple fold and fault structures
Included is a printed activity workbook that extends the CD-ROM.
Computer Specification:
Pentium 100Mhz processor, Windows 98 SE operating system, 16Mb memory (RAM), hard disk drive with at least 100MB free for software, 2MB graphics card with colour monitor displaying to a resolution of 800x600, high colour, 6 x CD/DVD-ROM drive, sound card with speakers or headphones.
Network Licences
Multi-user licences are not available for our CD-ROMs. However, multiple copies of the same CD-ROM may be bought at a discounted price. Please contact OUW Ltd for details.
ISBN: 9780749230364
Earth Materials - S260/CDR/B
'Earth Materials' introduces students to the crystal structure of common minerals through three-dimensional, fully interactive crystal models and video and audio clips. This CD-ROM also features:- a visual catalogue of nine common mineral types which allows students to examine their properties through video clips, three-dimensional models and demonstrations of simple physical tests
- a virtual lightbox, allowing students to discover how rotation of thin sections of minerals in polarised light produces interference colours in the microscope
Included is a printed activity workbook that extends the CD-ROM.
Computer Specification:
Pentium 100Mhz processor, Windows 98 SE operating system, 16Mb memory (RAM), hard disk drive with at least 100MB free for software, 2MB graphics card with colour monitor displaying to a resolution of 800x600, high colour, 6 x CD/DVD-ROM drive, sound card with speakers or headphones.
Network Licences
Multi-user licences are not available for our CD-ROMs. However, multiple copies of the same CD-ROM may be bought at a discounted price. Please contact OUW Ltd for details.
ISBN: 9780749230388
Internal Processes - S260/CDR/C
'Internal Processes' features a variety of activities to aid student understanding of this geological area:- the lava flow of volcanoes is explored through simulations of a series of experiments with melted wax. These experiments are normally unavailable outside the confines of a highly equipped geological laboratory
- a virtual fieldtrip to Skiddaw in the English Lake District. This trip integrates outcrops, virtual hand specimens, minerals, phase diagrams and rock thin sections in the digital microscope, creating an innovative and truly integrated approach for students to explore metamorphism around the Skiddaw granite
Included is a printed activity workbook that extends the CD-ROM.
Computer Specification:
Pentium 100Mhz processor, Windows 98 SE operating system, 16Mb memory (RAM), hard disk drive with at least 100MB free for software, 2MB graphics card with colour monitor displaying to a resolution of 800x600, high colour, 6 x CD/DVD-ROM drive, sound card with speakers or headphones.
Network Licences
Multi-user licences are not available for our CD-ROMs. However, multiple copies of the same CD-ROM may be bought at a discounted price. Please contact OUW Ltd for details.
ISBN: 9780749230760
Surface Processes - S260/CDR/D
This rich and vivid mix of diagrams, models, photographs, and video and audio clips allows students to explore many aspects of the formation of sediments and their entombed fossils. With Surface Processes, students can:- travel through time, exploring erosion and deposition and plant and animal life in various environments and several remote geological periods
- explore these same environments in the present day and compare and contrast their findings
Included is a printed activity workbook that extends the CD-ROM.
Computer Specification:
Pentium 100Mhz processor, Windows 98 SE operating system, 16Mb memory (RAM), hard disk drive with at least 100MB free for software, 2MB graphics card with colour monitor displaying to a resolution of 800x600, high colour, 6 x CD/DVD-ROM drive, sound card with speakers or headphones.
Network Licences
Multi-user licences are not available for our CD-ROMs. However, multiple copies of the same CD-ROM may be bought at a discounted price. Please contact OUW Ltd for details.
ISBN: 9780749230777
Digital Microscope - S260/CDR/E
'The Digital Microscope' allows students access to an expensive petrological microscope from their computer with 27 thin sections from the 'Digital Rock Kit' and almost 4000 high-quality colour images. A help menu explains how to use a geological microscope and a full 360 degree rotation of all samples is possible under a variety of microscope-viewing conditions.All thin sections can be taken from their virtual storage drawers to be laid out on a simulated light box; viewed at x10 with a virtual hand lens and transferred to the digital microscope. Students can view samples under both normal, (polarised) light and between crossed polars but, unlike a conventional microscope, the same sample can be viewed under both conditions concurrently.
Computer Specification:
Pentium 100Mhz processor, Windows 98 SE operating system, 16Mb memory (RAM), hard disk drive with at least 100MB free for software, 2MB graphics card with colour monitor displaying to a resolution of 800x600, high colour, 6 x CD/DVD-ROM drive, sound card with speakers or headphones.
Network Licences
Multi-user licences are not available for our CD-ROMs. However, multiple copies of the same CD-ROM may be bought at a discounted price. Please contact OUW Ltd for details.
ISBN: 9780749230784
Digital Kit - S260/CDR/F
This fascinating virtual geological kit is presented as three 'sample boxes' containing: 30 rocks (igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary); 20 minerals; and 20 fossils. Students can investigate most of these 70 samples by 'picking them up' and 'turning them over' in three dimensions as though handling real hand specimens.This CD-ROM also contains:
- a simple visual quiz to aid understanding
- an audio guide to pronunciation
- interactive labelling of key features
Computer Specification:
Pentium 100Mhz processor, Windows 98 SE operating system, 16Mb memory (RAM), hard disk drive with at least 100MB free for software, 2MB graphics card with colour monitor displaying to a resolution of 800x600, high colour, 6 x CD/DVD-ROM drive, sound card with speakers or headphones.
Network Licences
Multi-user licences are not available for our CD-ROMs. However, multiple copies of the same CD-ROM may be bought at a discounted price. Please contact OUW Ltd for details.
ISBN: 9780749230791
Geology DVD Pack - S260/DVDPACK
This DVD Pack contains 3 disks with multimedia applications and video sequences to accompany Blocks 1-4 of course S260. Also included are the Digital Microscope and Digital Kit.A small number of supporting software applications must be installed before you can access the applications.
Computer Specification:
Pentium 700MHz processor, 128 MB memory (RAM), Windows 98 SE, 32x CD-ROM drive. All computers have certain common items, which should be compatible with the general standard of the computer, they include: Colour monitor capable of displaying 800x600 resolution and “High Color” with appropriate video card to support this, hard disc drive with at least 20GB, pointing device (mouse, trackball, pen/pad, voice-activated), keyboard, 56kbps (V90 or V92) or broadband modem, sound card or onboard sound, microphone (some courses only) & speakers/headphones.
Computers with higher specification components will provide a smoother presentation of the multimedia materials.
Network Licences
Multi-user licences are not available for our CD-ROMs. However, multiple copies of the same CD-ROM may be bought at a discounted price. Please contact OUW Ltd for details.
Publication Year: 2005
ISBN: 9780749226046
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