Rubric for the Geology of Idaho Project, 2010

This is how the project is to be scored. It will make up over 50% of your quarter grade. Other grades will include notes on the presentations of the geologic regions of Idaho and the weekly quizzes on those regions You may have items scored early to help you see how you are doing on the project. If something is done poorly, you have the opportunity to redo it for a better score. If you hand it all in on the May 28 deadline, you will have to take the score you get at that time with no chance of making changes, alterations, or improvements.

Item / Requirement / Value / Points Earned

Cover page

/ Neat and typewritten /

1%

/

Table of Contents

/ Neat, (NCT) complete, typwritten /

3%

/

Mapwork

/ Neat w/ key / /
Mapwork correctness
and completeness / 15 unknowns correct /

45%

Summary Sheet
Snake River Plain / NC(9)T /

4.5%

Summary Sheet
Owyhee-Bruneau Plateau / NC(9)T /

4.5%

Summary Sheet
Clearwater Plateau / NC(9)T /

4.5%

Summary Sheet
Northern Rockies / NC(9)T /

4.5%

Summary Sheet
Middle Rockies / NC(9)T /

4.5%

Summary Sheet
Basin/Range Province / NC(9)T /

4.5%

Report #1 / NC(6)T /

12%

Report #2 / NC(6)T /

12%

Total Score /

100%

IDAHO GEOLOGY PROJECT ITEMS SPRING, 2010

MOUNTAIN RANGES (MAP #1) RIVERS (MAP #2)

Caribou Clark Fork

Blackfoot Pend Oreille

Bear River Snake

Bannock Raft

Deep Creek Henry’s Fork

Sublett Little and Big Wood

Albion Little and Big Lost

Poison Creek Hills Clearwater

Palouse Hills Potlatch

(Borah Peak) Jarbridge

Seven Devils Bruneau

Lost River Owyhee

French John Hills Kootenai

Jump Creek Hills Boise

Sawtooth Priest

Selkirk Coeur d’Alene

Cabinet Payette

Bitterroot St. Joe

(Cottonwood Butte) Teton

(Craig Mountain) Blackfoot

Beaverhead Bear

Lemhi Portneuf

Salmon River Bannock Creek

Coeur d’Alene Goose Creek

Portneuf Salmon

Spokane

LAKES AND RIVERS (2)

Redfish NATURAL REGIONS OF IDAHO (1)

Coeur d’Alene Northern Rockies

Pend Oreille Middle Rockies

Priest Clearwater Plateau

Bear Owyhee/Bruneau Plateau

Gray’s Snake River Plain

Blackfoot River Reservoir Basin & Range Province

Palisades Reservoir

American Falls Reservoir IDAHO COUNTIES with names (3)

OTHER WATER FEATURES (2) CITIES AND TOWNS (2)

A. Channeled Scablands Hagerman Stanley

B. Glacial Ice Dams Sandpoint Lewiston

C. Rathdrum Prairie Aquifer Post Falls Pocatello

D. Dworshak Dam American Falls Bonners Ferry

E. Shoshone Falls Boise Murphy

F. Thousand Springs Twin Falls Preston

G. Lost River Sinks Idaho Falls McCall

H. Ancient Lake Missoula Grangeville Rexburg

I. Ancient Lake Bonneville Riggins Driggs

Challis Arco

Kellogg/Wallace Soda Springs

OTHER POINTS OF INTEREST (MAP #3)

1. The River of No Return

2. Island Park Caldera 28. Coeur d’Alene Mining Area

3. Shoshone Ice Cave 29. Craters of the Moon National

4. Camas Prairie Monument

5. Beginning/End of the Snake River 30. Purcell Trench

6. Bruneau Sand Dunes

7. Camas Prairie

8. First Gold Discovery

9. Lowest point in Idaho

9.  Highest point in Idaho

10.  Garnets

11.  Stanley Basin

12.  Hell’s Canyon

13.  Grand Canyon of the Snake

14.  Bruneau Gorge

15.  Curlew National Grasslands

16.  INEEL

17.  Great Rift

18.  City of Rocks

19.  Idaho Batholith

20. Hot Springs

21. Kaniksu Batholith

22. Phosphate Mining

23. Osburn Fault

24. Lewis-Clark Fault Zone

25. Balanced Rock

26. Horseshoe Bend Hill Slide Area

27. Boise Basin Mining Area

All maps and map additions are to be done by hand and must be your original work. See me if you have any brainstorms for new formats.

NON-MAP ITEMS (recommend getting all these pre-checked):

1. Summary sheet on each of the 6 Geologic Regions (Monday presentations)

2. 2 Formal reports: All reports must be in Comic Sans MS font, size 12, black, double-spaced, with pertinent graphics inserted. Emphasis should be on geology. But the following items should be considered: Location, origin, structure and/or components, age, and interesting facts.

Report on 2 of the following topics:

Hells Canyon and the 7 Devils

Bruneau Gorge

The Idaho State Soil

Idaho Batholith

Bruneau Sanddunes

Idaho Metal Ore Mining (Historical)

Idaho Metal Ore Mining (Present)

Idaho Phosphate Mining and Processing

Alpine Glaciation in McCall

Craters of the Moon

Idaho Hotspot (Yellowstone)

The Lost Rivers/Thousand Springs

North Idaho Glaciation, including

Purcell Trench

Spokane Floods

Channeled Scablands

Rathdrum Aquifer

All project parts should be placed in a 3 ring binder with a computer-generated cover sheet and table of contents.

Final Contents of “Geology of Idaho” project:

1.  cover sheet

2.  table of contents

3.  completed maps

4.  6 completed summary sheets

5.  2 reports of your choosing

This is all due on May 28th. Good luck and keep up-to-date on the regions! Once again, I recommend getting all these non-map items pre-checked when completed.