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Iris: Global Seismogram Viewer
Discover the P-wave Shadow Zone and how it can be used to determine the diameter of Earth's outer core.
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Iris: World: Tectonic Plates
Interactive map of tectonic plates from the US Geological Survey plate tectonic map reveals the plate names when you scroll over the plate.
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Iris: New Madrid: Sand Blows Are Evidence for Earthquakes
Scroll over this photograph of an excavation to see evidence for prehistoric sand blows. These give evidence for earthquakes and liquefaction in the prehistoric record.
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Iris: Introduction to Play Elements
A video lecture and practice exercises for students methods used to find hydrocarbons during oil discovery.
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Iris: Estimating Ultimate Recovery
Through a video lecture and practice exercises, students estimate the ultimate recovery (EUR) of a hydrocarbon prospect.
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Iris: Development Geology & Geophysics
A video lecture with exercises that prompt students to describe the three (3) major phases of an asset's life, review the exploration phase of an asset and list the key major considerations of the development phase.
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Iris: Assessing Barra
Through a video lecture and exercises, young scholars discover how scientists in the oil and gas industry risk a prospect.
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Iris: Can Humans Cause Earthquakes?
A class investigation studying whether or not human factors can cause earthquakes through hydraulic fracturing.
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Iris: Earthquake Machine 3 Earthquake Prediction: Adi Style Activity
Students work in small groups to use a physical model, the earthquake machine, to examine the occurrence of earthquakes and the inputs and outputs of fault systems.
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Iris: How Does a Seismometer Work?
An overview of the basic components of a seismometer and physical science principles behind its operation.
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Iris: Earthquake Magnitude Modeling With Pasta Quake
Using only strands of spaghetti, you and your class can explore the amount of energy released for each level of the earthquake magnitude scale.
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Iris: How Often Do Earthquakes Occur?
A one-pager that illustrates how often earthquakes occur.
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Iris: Determining Shallow Earth Structure
Extend students' learning of fundamental physics concepts (reflection, refraction and transmission of energy) through a real-world application.
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Iris: Seismic Events of Special Interest
This fact sheet highlights some of these recent seismic events that are of special interest because they have caused notable geologic changes to our landscape or devastating destruction to our society.
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Iris: Earthquakes, Like Ripples on Water?
See how seismic waves propagate outwards, as wave fronts, in all directions following an earthquake.
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Iris: Earthquake Machine: Demonstration of the 1 Block Model (Introduction)
A demonstration that models earthquakes in the classroom.
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Iris: Earthquake Machine 1 Defining an Earthquake
In this activity, students work collaboratively in small groups to investigate the earthquake cycle using a mechanical model.
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Iris: How Hard Does the Ground Shake During a Quake?
This activity asks students to demonstrate how hard they think the ground shakes during an earthquake.
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Iris: Mysterious Motions Along the Pacific Northwest Coast
In this lab, students investigate mysterious ground motions along the Pacific Northwest Coast.
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Iris: Pacific Northwest vs. Sumatra: Flash Rollover
This rollover compares the earthquake of 1700 in the Pacific Northwest with the 2004 Sumatra earthquake and tsunami.
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Iris: Pacific Northwest Earthquake Locations: Flash
The Pacific Northwest is host to three kinds of earthquakes revealed in this interactive.
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Iris: Investigating a Mine Collapse in Utah
Use seismic data to determine whether or not a 2007 earthquake caused a mine collapse in Utah.
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Iris: How Are Earthquakes Located?
This illustrated fact sheet shows how S and P waves each travel at varying speeds and therefore arrive at seismic stations at different times.
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Iris: Arguing Causes of Faults & Folds Sponge Fault Model
Young scholars examine images of faults and folds, then experiment with two models to collect evidence to determine how the structures formed.