{"id":9797,"date":"2017-01-20T14:42:31","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T19:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/?p=9797"},"modified":"2017-01-20T14:42:31","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T19:42:31","slug":"visualising-earth-structure-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2017\/01\/visualising-earth-structure-redux\/","title":{"rendered":"Visualising Earth Structure, redux"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last semester, when teaching my intro class about the composition and structure of the Earth and how we know<\/a>, I went a bit overboard in producing a snazzy Earth cross-section<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"Earth<\/a>

A slightly amended version of my cross-section through the Earth from Kent, OH to its antipode.<\/p><\/div>\n

I’m still pretty proud of this, but one of its strengths is also a potential weakness: with so much information on offer, it may overwhelm students when they are studying. Which facts are the really<\/em> important ones? So I’ve been experimenting with distilling the fundamental facts about the Earth’s compositional and mechanical layering into the one true mode of communication in the social media age. I speak, of course, of the animated GIF. Let me know what you think of my first attempts below.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

Flashcard animation showing the nature of the compositional layering in the Earth.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"The<\/a>

Flashcard animation showing the nature of the mechanical layering in the Earth.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Earth<\/a>

Flashcard animation of Earth layers’ radius and volume compared to the whole Earth.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last semester, when teaching my intro class about the composition and structure of the Earth and how we know, I went a bit overboard in producing a snazzy Earth cross-section: I’m still pretty proud of this, but one of its … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,4,301],"tags":[809,807,806,808],"class_list":["post-9797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basics","category-geology","category-teaching","tag-core","tag-crust","tag-earth-structure","tag-mantle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9797"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9806,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9797\/revisions\/9806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}