Geology – Lab work Week 11 Assignment

Learning Objective, You will learn about the rock limestone and its many commercial uses.

Do a little research on the mineral (rock) limestone on the web and create a listing of its commercial uses. If you can find some dollar values for the different products, bring a little economics into the report. Submit this listing for a grade and as a comparison with lists from other student using the email in this class.

Go to the Table of Contents on the left and view the field trip video “Limestone”.

Web Links:

http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient&rlz=1T4GPEA_enUS312US313&q=sedimentary+rocks+pictures&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=MPfUSa2CK5mktAPanomkCg&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&resnum=1&ct=title

These are images of sedimentary rocks.

http://geology.com/rocks/chert.shtml  More nice pictures starting with chert, the material used for tool making by pre-man.

http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient&rlz=1T4GPEA_enUS312US313&q=rock+weathering&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=JvjUSZHJAYTEtAOiqNSnCg&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&resnum=1&ct=title

Images of rock weathering.

http://www.globalchange.umich.edu/globalchange1/current/lectures/soils/soils.html About soils.

http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundamentals/10r.html  Weathering and erosion.