- As part of an experimental program to bring
together arts and sciences at your school, you are requested
to create an art piece that shows in three dimensions - through
drawings, sculptures, computer animations, or other forms
- the sequence of geologic events that took place in the Northeast
United States over the past billion years. It is thought that
the sequence of events, represented in different colors and
changing shapes, may give an interesting art form as well
as illustrating geologic history. Create your own artistic
piece, of the history of the Northeast, showing: (1) the Grenville
passive margin, (2) the Taconic converge, (3) the Acadian
convergence, (4) the rifting apart of Pangea, and (5) the
Coastal Plain passive margin.
- Your art piece is selected to go on display
in your local art museum. The Director of Exhibits there asks
if you could create another three dimensional piece that represents
a stack of rocks of various ages from just your own area.
This will help show people at a local scale the influence
of these geologic events on the rocks under their feet. You
are asked to please use colors consistent with the first piece,
so that the two pieces are complementary. Create a second
artistic piece, representing local rocks through time, consistent
with (1).
- You have another creative idea. You apply
for and receive a grant to create three more pieces for local
geology as in (2), each of them in a different place that,
all together, can help tell the large-scale story of number
(1). (a) Create three more art pieces for areas of the Northeast
that are each geologically different from each other, so that
altogether they represent how large scale geologic events
have affected local rocks. You choose the locations. Create
an artwork representing the series of rocks present at each
location. You decide each piece of art should somehow include
actual specimens of rocks representing each event or geological
period. Though it is clear that you can go to the three places
and find rocks at the surface, the rocks under the surface
from previous geologic periods will be buried; you reason
that you can find rocks of similar age and origin exposed
at the surface elsewhere. Fortunately you had the foresight
to see that you'd need to do some field work, and have a modest
travel budget as part of your grant. (b) Describe in highway
travel the most efficient way to collect appropriate samples
that represent the subsurface samples you need. Create a travel
report listing each segment of the trip, what you collected,
how many miles you traveled, and what your travel costs were.
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