This web page was designed as a companion for the article "Stream Piracy in the Black Hills: A Geomorphology Lab Exercise" currently under review in the Journal of Geoscience Education. This site provides instructors with:

1. A full color copy of the lab exercise in both PDF and CorelDraw (.cdr) formats

2. A full color copy of the teacher's guide in both PDF and CorelDraw formats

3. Some color photos of the locations described in the lab

This lab can be downloaded and modified as any instructor sees fit. Any questions? E-mail me at bjzaprowski@salisbury.edu

 
FOR LAB EXERCISE IN .PDF FORMAT , CLICK HERE

FOR LAB EXERCISE IN .CDR FORMAT, CLICK HERE

FOR LAB EXERCISE KEY IN .PDF FORMAT , CLICK HERE

FOR LAB EXERCISE KEY IN .CDR FORMAT, CLICK HERE

 
PHOTOS FROM THE BLACK HILLS
Click on the thumbnails to see enlarged, labelled, high quality images

 
The Black Hills, looking at the "Red Racetrack", center and the sandstone hogback ridge, left
The Black Hills, looking at the monoclional dip slope of the carbonates
Mountain Meadow fluvial/alluvial terrace in "Red Racetrack" outside Sturgis, SD.
Rapid terrace along Redwater River shown in foreground. Hogback shown in background.
Terraces in the southeastern Black Hills. Yellow = Farmingdale, 
White = Strugis, Pink = Rapid
Terraces in Government Valley, outside Sundance, WY. Orange = Mountain Meadow
Rapid terraces SW of Sundance, WY. The picture is deceiving as the terraces are all at the same elevation.
Cenozoic badland forming deposits in the southeastern Black Hills between Cheyenne and White Rivers
A string of Mountain Meadow terraces across Centennial Prairie, showing old path of Spearfish Creek
Mouth of Spearfish Canyon. Rapid terrace on left showing former stream path. Blue arrow = current path
 Centennial Prairie east of Spearfish, SD. Note hogback ridge on left
Mountain Meadow Terrace along False Bottom Creek, outside Spearfish, SD
Belle Fourche River at southern edge of Stoneville Flats. Rapid terrace grades into Stoneville Flats, right.
The Little Missouri River at the northern end of Stoneville Flats. Note Mountain Meadow terrace in back.
Stoneville Flats looking southward.
Slump in Mountain Meadow Terrace outside Alzada, MT. Note car for scale