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Getting the most out of field sketches

This guide aims to teach students how to create accurate field sketches, use technical terms, understand geology and topography relationships, and revise key field phenomena. Field sketches are essential for recording observations and measurements, summarizing key features, analyzing field photographs, and providing memory aids.

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Getting the most out of field sketches

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  1. Getting the most out of field sketches Maggie Williams

  2. Aims • To show students how to make relevant field sketches • To encourage use of appropriate technical terms to describe what is seen & sketched in the field • To help students recognise relationships between geology & topography • To help students revise basic field phenomena

  3. Why are field sketches important? • Record field observations & measurements • Give a summary of key structural & geological features • Help analyses of photographs taken in the field • Provide useful memory aids • Here today – gone tomorrow?

  4. You don’t have to: Be an artist Produce a masterpiece or work of art You do have to: Produce a simple outline drawing or summary diagram Allow enough time to make a sketch Keep work neat & tidy Making a field sketch

  5. The wrong way?

  6. The right way?

  7. Stages in drawing a field sketch1. Choose the view you wish to record

  8. 2. Choose a scale & draw lines to divide your page

  9. 3. Draw in the skyline & foreground in your field of view

  10. 4. Draw in lines showing the main structural & geological features

  11. 5. Draw in features such as changes in slope, vegetation & rock type.Hint: Leave out details of minor features – best recorded in smaller sketches highlighting details.

  12. 6. Add labels

  13. 7. Check list • Date • Locality & National Grid Reference • Title • Direction of view • Measurements/scale • Rock types • Dip & strike • Types of structures (sedimentary, tectonic) Hint: Avoid vague terms

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