Geocasts
This page features portable geologic field trips. Geology is best seen in person and outside, so please use these digital field trips as an invitation to get outside and truly explore Iowa's diverse landscapes and beyond! Feel free to download these data and take them with you on your own adventures. The format of these Podcast pages will display geologic videos with supporting photographs and informative text that explores the geology of Iowa's landscapes. History recorded in stone.
State Parks
- Pikes Peak (Geologic Society of Iowa)
- Wapsipinicon
- Maquoketa Caves, There's a chance the caves will open on April 15, 2012!
- Student exploration handout
- Elle Johnson's Project - A multimedia guide of the Park's Archaeology, Geology, and Ecology!
Geologic Places of Interest
- Saylorville Lake Des Moines (GSI Spring'09)
- Pennsylvanian gelogy of south-central Iowa (Lamoni & Decatur City) (GSI Spring'10)
- Geology of Klein and Conklin Quarries, Iowa City (GSI Fall'10)
- Hurstville Lime Kilns (Maquoketa)
- Geology of Iowa Teacher's Summer Course (funded by the Iowa Limestone Producers Association)
- The amazing geology of Bremer County (Geologic Society of Iowa Spring Field trip) April 30, 2011
Geology in action!
- Rivers
- Shorelines
- Earthquakes
- Tsunami
- Mass wasting