Earthquakes and Plate Boundaries
... • These breaks are called faults • The forces that move tectonic plates also push and pull on rocks along the fault and if these become big enough the blocks of rock on either side of the fault can move horizontally or vertically • The greater the force the larger and more disastrous the earthquake ...
... • These breaks are called faults • The forces that move tectonic plates also push and pull on rocks along the fault and if these become big enough the blocks of rock on either side of the fault can move horizontally or vertically • The greater the force the larger and more disastrous the earthquake ...
Bio 126 Introduction to Geology
... • Named by clastic (particle) size that makes up the framework of the rock • Smallest to largest particles: – Shale - Forms in Clay deposits – Siltstone – Forms in Still water – Sandstone – Forms in Slow moving water, ...
... • Named by clastic (particle) size that makes up the framework of the rock • Smallest to largest particles: – Shale - Forms in Clay deposits – Siltstone – Forms in Still water – Sandstone – Forms in Slow moving water, ...
What is Egypt made of?
... limestone. Older ones are made of blocks of the rock, younger ones of concrete, the cement for which is made of limestone. The great pyramids at Giza were constructed of huge limestone blocks, most weighing over 2 tons. These blocks probably mostly came from Gebel Mokattam, about 10 miles away and c ...
... limestone. Older ones are made of blocks of the rock, younger ones of concrete, the cement for which is made of limestone. The great pyramids at Giza were constructed of huge limestone blocks, most weighing over 2 tons. These blocks probably mostly came from Gebel Mokattam, about 10 miles away and c ...
Rock cycle - Russell County Moodle
... While on vacation, a student visits the area around a volcano that has recently erupted. The student can expect to find samples of F ...
... While on vacation, a student visits the area around a volcano that has recently erupted. The student can expect to find samples of F ...
Hot Rocks and Oil: Are Volcanic Margins the New Frontier?
... and dykes which form the plumbing systems of the volcanic margins underneath. These systems develop where the rifting apart of continents coincides with flood basalt volcanism and creates LIPs. With continued rifting, the volcanic deposits are preserved on either side of the rifted continents. Examp ...
... and dykes which form the plumbing systems of the volcanic margins underneath. These systems develop where the rifting apart of continents coincides with flood basalt volcanism and creates LIPs. With continued rifting, the volcanic deposits are preserved on either side of the rifted continents. Examp ...
Stages of Tukituki Evolution
... deposited due to fluvial transportation. With the pressure of the ocean above this sand and mudstone was compacted into sedimentary rock form. Due to the relative fluidity of the sediment at this time it stratified itself this is shown in the diagram by the different layers shown. ...
... deposited due to fluvial transportation. With the pressure of the ocean above this sand and mudstone was compacted into sedimentary rock form. Due to the relative fluidity of the sediment at this time it stratified itself this is shown in the diagram by the different layers shown. ...
Lecture 5B / Igneous Rocks
... These notes and web links are your primary “lecture” content in this class. Additionally, various articles are assigned each week to supplement this “lecture” information. I believe you’ll have enough information to reference without having to purchase a costly textbook. These lecture notes are ver ...
... These notes and web links are your primary “lecture” content in this class. Additionally, various articles are assigned each week to supplement this “lecture” information. I believe you’ll have enough information to reference without having to purchase a costly textbook. These lecture notes are ver ...
Chapter 11
... • The circum-Pacific and the EurasianMelanesian mountain belts are both located along convergent plate boundaries. • Scientists think that the location of these two mountain belts provides evidence that most mountains form as a result of collisions between tectonic plates. ...
... • The circum-Pacific and the EurasianMelanesian mountain belts are both located along convergent plate boundaries. • Scientists think that the location of these two mountain belts provides evidence that most mountains form as a result of collisions between tectonic plates. ...
CHAPTER 18 Volcanism
... 8,872 meters above sea level. This is the highest mountain in the world, though many mountains around it are almost as high. Mt. Everest is in the Himalayas, a series of massive ranges that extends 2,500 kilometers across South Asia north of India. The Himalayas cover all or part of the countries of ...
... 8,872 meters above sea level. This is the highest mountain in the world, though many mountains around it are almost as high. Mt. Everest is in the Himalayas, a series of massive ranges that extends 2,500 kilometers across South Asia north of India. The Himalayas cover all or part of the countries of ...
Reconstruction of subducted oceanic crust based on accreted
... volcano-sedimentary sequence, in which andesitic volcanics are overlain by radiolarian chert, suggests that they originated from intraoceanic remnant arc such as the present-day Kyushu-Palau Ridge. History of subducted oceanic crust: The oldest pelagic sediments give the youngest age limit of the oc ...
... volcano-sedimentary sequence, in which andesitic volcanics are overlain by radiolarian chert, suggests that they originated from intraoceanic remnant arc such as the present-day Kyushu-Palau Ridge. History of subducted oceanic crust: The oldest pelagic sediments give the youngest age limit of the oc ...
Earth Science Final Exam
... 77. What is evapotranspiration? 78. Draw a simple sketch of a drainage basin and divide and label each. 79. Describe the three ways a stream transport its load. 80. What is the difference between capacity and competency? 81. Describe and sketch the development of a meander bend, including how an oxb ...
... 77. What is evapotranspiration? 78. Draw a simple sketch of a drainage basin and divide and label each. 79. Describe the three ways a stream transport its load. 80. What is the difference between capacity and competency? 81. Describe and sketch the development of a meander bend, including how an oxb ...
VOYAGE OF THE CONTINENTS AFRICA ORIGINS Script
... The rock that we see here, are sediments. quartzites to be exact. Quartzites like these are coming throughout the world. In a normal sense, sediments and Quartzites, generally formed in layers, horizontal layers. Normally these sediments rest on basement rocks such as granites. And the granites norm ...
... The rock that we see here, are sediments. quartzites to be exact. Quartzites like these are coming throughout the world. In a normal sense, sediments and Quartzites, generally formed in layers, horizontal layers. Normally these sediments rest on basement rocks such as granites. And the granites norm ...
Word document of the lesson plan
... Reverse Faults: (Fig. 4) Faults in which the force on the fault is push, and so the foot wall and the hanging wall are being forced together. This makes the hanging wall slide up the face of the foot wall. Strike-slip Faults: (Fig. 4)Faults in which the fault itself is horizontal not vertical. There ...
... Reverse Faults: (Fig. 4) Faults in which the force on the fault is push, and so the foot wall and the hanging wall are being forced together. This makes the hanging wall slide up the face of the foot wall. Strike-slip Faults: (Fig. 4)Faults in which the fault itself is horizontal not vertical. There ...
Internal Assessment Resource
... The link to the cause of volcanoes and their magma type is essential to the processes in the Taupo Volcanic Zone. The reasons for the types of magma produced needs to be explained. It is assumed that the geological processes of weathering and/or erosion are discussed in relation to the formation of ...
... The link to the cause of volcanoes and their magma type is essential to the processes in the Taupo Volcanic Zone. The reasons for the types of magma produced needs to be explained. It is assumed that the geological processes of weathering and/or erosion are discussed in relation to the formation of ...
Rock cycle
... particular to the rock cycle and the envisioned cyclical nature of geologic processes. This concept of a repetitive non-evolutionary rock cycle remained dominant until the plate tectonics revolution of the 1960s. With the developing understanding of the driving engine of plate tectonics, the rock cy ...
... particular to the rock cycle and the envisioned cyclical nature of geologic processes. This concept of a repetitive non-evolutionary rock cycle remained dominant until the plate tectonics revolution of the 1960s. With the developing understanding of the driving engine of plate tectonics, the rock cy ...
Plate Boundaries Stresses Faults Table PowerPoint
... Zones as denser oceanic plate dives under less dense continental plate. ...
... Zones as denser oceanic plate dives under less dense continental plate. ...
Document
... of how the earth’s surface is formed e. Recognize that lithospheric plates constantly move and cause major geological events on the earth’s surface. Review: 1. List the geologic event(s) that can occur at each plate boundary. (What happens or is formed here?) ...
... of how the earth’s surface is formed e. Recognize that lithospheric plates constantly move and cause major geological events on the earth’s surface. Review: 1. List the geologic event(s) that can occur at each plate boundary. (What happens or is formed here?) ...
Sa˜o Luıs Craton and Gurupi Belt
... as young as 1100 Ma in the amphibolite-facies metasedimentary Marajupema Formation (Fig. 3), which has Sm–Nd TDM model age of 1.41 Ga (Klein et al. 2005b). These authors suggested that the sedimentation of detritus from Archaean, Palaeoproterozoic, and Mesoproterozoic/Neoproterozoic sources could ha ...
... as young as 1100 Ma in the amphibolite-facies metasedimentary Marajupema Formation (Fig. 3), which has Sm–Nd TDM model age of 1.41 Ga (Klein et al. 2005b). These authors suggested that the sedimentation of detritus from Archaean, Palaeoproterozoic, and Mesoproterozoic/Neoproterozoic sources could ha ...
Seismix2003
... We acquired two wide angle and normal incidence surveys, using 85 four-component ocean bottom seismometers, and several vertical arrays for far-field source signature recording. Coincident magnetics and gravity data were also recorded. The first survey crossed the Faroes Shelf and adjacent continent ...
... We acquired two wide angle and normal incidence surveys, using 85 four-component ocean bottom seismometers, and several vertical arrays for far-field source signature recording. Coincident magnetics and gravity data were also recorded. The first survey crossed the Faroes Shelf and adjacent continent ...
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... earthquakes and aftershocks for the last 1.5 years. Yet before the first earthquake happened in September 2010 any evidence that this fault existed was covered with a thick layer of gravels. Five million years ago, the rate of uplift accelerated such that the Southern Alps are now rising faster than ...
... earthquakes and aftershocks for the last 1.5 years. Yet before the first earthquake happened in September 2010 any evidence that this fault existed was covered with a thick layer of gravels. Five million years ago, the rate of uplift accelerated such that the Southern Alps are now rising faster than ...
A field guide to the geology of the Castle Hill Basin
... earthquakes and aftershocks for the last 1.5 years. Yet before the first earthquake happened in September 2010 any evidence that this fault existed was covered with a thick layer of gravels. Five million years ago, the rate of uplift accelerated such that the Southern Alps are now rising faster than ...
... earthquakes and aftershocks for the last 1.5 years. Yet before the first earthquake happened in September 2010 any evidence that this fault existed was covered with a thick layer of gravels. Five million years ago, the rate of uplift accelerated such that the Southern Alps are now rising faster than ...
isostasy - UMSL.edu
... Because Oceanic Crust has a higher density than Continental Crust, it adjusts lower into the Mantle. This condition is augmented by the fact that Oceanic Crust is thinner and therefore has less mass to compensate for through buoyant displacement of the Mantle. Continental Crust is thicker and has a ...
... Because Oceanic Crust has a higher density than Continental Crust, it adjusts lower into the Mantle. This condition is augmented by the fact that Oceanic Crust is thinner and therefore has less mass to compensate for through buoyant displacement of the Mantle. Continental Crust is thicker and has a ...
Open-file Report 579: Block diagrams and cross sections illustrating
... area, depositing marine and coastal-plain sediments, off and on, over at least 10 million years (part of the rock record is locally eroded away). Marine invertebrate fossils (~96-86 million years old) are abundant in Cretaceous rocks preserved on Sevilleta NWR. Subsidence of the “Western Interior Se ...
... area, depositing marine and coastal-plain sediments, off and on, over at least 10 million years (part of the rock record is locally eroded away). Marine invertebrate fossils (~96-86 million years old) are abundant in Cretaceous rocks preserved on Sevilleta NWR. Subsidence of the “Western Interior Se ...
Algoman orogeny
The Algoman orogeny, known as the Kenoran orogeny in Canada, was an episode of mountain-building (orogeny) during the Late Archean Eon that involved repeated episodes of continental collisions, compressions and subductions. The Superior province and the Minnesota River Valley terrane collided about 2,700 to 2,500 million years ago. The collision folded the Earth's crust and produced enough heat and pressure to metamorphose the rock. Blocks were added to the Superior province along a 1,200 km (750 mi) boundary that stretches from present-day eastern South Dakota into the Lake Huron area. The Algoman orogeny brought the Archaen Eon to a close, about 2,500 million years ago; it lasted less than 100 million years and marks a major change in the development of the earth’s crust.The Canadian shield contains belts of metavolcanic and metasedimentary rocks formed by the action of metamorphism on volcanic and sedimentary rock. The areas between individual belts consist of granites or granitic gneisses that form fault zones. These two types of belts can be seen in the Wabigoon, Quetico and Wawa subprovinces; the Wabigoon and Wawa are of volcanic origin and the Quetico is of sedimentary origin. These three subprovinces lie linearly in southwestern- to northeastern-oriented belts about 140 km (90 mi) wide on the southern portion of the Superior Province.The Slave province and portions of the Nain province were also affected. Between about 2,000 and 1,700 million years ago these combined with the Sask and Wyoming cratons to form the first supercontinent, the Kenorland supercontinent.