Sedimentation Rates on Shatsky Rise
Activity of the Month: December 2007
Grades 5-8
Students use Shatsky Rise core data to calculate sediment rates at different sites on the ocean floor to explore a real-life application of rate calculation and see what really counts as “fast” in geologic time.
*IMPORTANT NOTES: This activity is currently being revised to fix the following errors: The link to the initial results for Shatsky is incorrect. On the first page, where it tells that the older sediments are at the top of the core, the older sediments are actually on the bottom.
