LABPAQ DETAILS - GK-2: Historical Geology  

This self-contained LabPaq was designed for a one semester college or AP course in historical geology. It contains an excellent set of 50 different specimens of fossils and geologic maps. Experiment titles include:

GK-2 Experiment Titles

Geology Kit - Science Kits - Geology Lab Kit

Trina Riegel’s interest in geology was sparked in undergraduate school at the University of Minnesota, Morris. She studied the geology of the southwestern United States, Big Bend National Park in Texas, and the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming. She also worked on an undergraduate research program studying “boulder pavement” in Minnesota and South Dakota, an interesting and unique glacially-formed feature that does in fact look like a “pavement” of boulders all situated at the same level and planed off at the top.

Before finishing her 1993 B.A. in Geology, she also completed a field camp at the Black Hills of Wyoming. While in graduate school at Michigan State University Trina studied layers of clay minerals spanning 10,000 years around Lake Michigan to determine the lake’s different sources over time. She discovered that Lake Michigan had been both smaller and larger than it is today, and during one period it overlapped with Lake Superior, forming a very large “Great Lake”.

After obtaining an M.S. in Geological Sciences in 1994, Trina taught at Pikes Peak Community College and in 2000 began teaching for CCC-OnLine where she continues to teach online Physical and Historical Geology. She also teaches online Geology courses for Laramie County Community College and the University of Maryland.

In 2005 and 2006 Trina put some real distance into distance education by teaching her courses from northern Italy from where she visited and researched lots of fascinating geologic sites. She has two dogs and enjoys hiking, camping, rock collecting, and snow-shoeing with them. She also enjoys silversmithing, cutting stones for jewelry (she has to do something with all the rocks she collects!), traveling, and reading. You can follow Trina’s continuing geologic adventures via her blog at http://www.geologyteacher.blogspot.com