Geotours Workbook: A Guide for Exploring Geology using Google Earth - Softcover

Geotours Workbook contains over 200 active-learning tours that take students on virtual field trips to see outstanding examples of geology around the world. These custom Google Earth™ tours are accompanied by question worksheets that get students to engage with the sites like geologists. The Second Edition contains dozens of new sites and questions, as well as an enhanced visual program and a more streamlined and intuitive organization of the Google Earth™ digital materials. The Workbook can be packaged for free with Stephen Marshak's Earth: A Portrait of a Planet and Essentials of Geology.

Stephen Marshak is a Professor Emeritus of Geology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he taught for 35 years. During this time, he also served as Head of the Department of Geology and as Director of the School of Earth, Society, & Environment. Steve holds an A.B. from Cornell University, an M.S. from the University of Arizona, and a Ph.D. from Columbia University all in geology. His research interests in structural geology and tectonics have taken him in the field on several continents. Steve, a Fellow of the Geological Society of America, has won the highest teaching awards at both the college and campus levels at the University of Illinois, and has also received a Neil Miner Award from the National Association of Geoscience Teachers for "exceptional contributions to the stimulation of interest in the Earth Sciences." In addition to research papers and Earth: Portrait of a Planet, Essentials of Geology, Earth Science, and Laboratory Manual for Introductory Geology, he has co-authored Earth Structure: An Introduction to Structural Geology and Tectonics, and Basic Methods of Structural Geology.