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Virginia-Physical
... The Blue Ridge is a high ridge of crystalline rock separating the Piedmont from the Valley and Ridge Province. The billion-year old igneous and metamorphic rocks of the Blue Ridge are the oldest in the state. The Blue Ridge province experienced mountain building during the late Neoproterozoic era (7 ...
... The Blue Ridge is a high ridge of crystalline rock separating the Piedmont from the Valley and Ridge Province. The billion-year old igneous and metamorphic rocks of the Blue Ridge are the oldest in the state. The Blue Ridge province experienced mountain building during the late Neoproterozoic era (7 ...
Read extract - Diane Mitchell
... it keeps on changing, albeit slowly. As for nature, we are spoiled for choice, from the microscopic to the ecosystem as a whole. In other words, there is much to explore, by car or by foot. This book tells the story of the landscape and of the ecosystem that thrives here – and where to see some of i ...
... it keeps on changing, albeit slowly. As for nature, we are spoiled for choice, from the microscopic to the ecosystem as a whole. In other words, there is much to explore, by car or by foot. This book tells the story of the landscape and of the ecosystem that thrives here – and where to see some of i ...
Curriculum - Rivers2Lake
... Lake Superior is one of the earth's youngest major features, at only about 10,000 years of age--dating to the last glacial retreat. By comparison, the earth's second largest lake (by surface area, and largest by volume), Lake Baikal in Russia, is 25 million years old. ...
... Lake Superior is one of the earth's youngest major features, at only about 10,000 years of age--dating to the last glacial retreat. By comparison, the earth's second largest lake (by surface area, and largest by volume), Lake Baikal in Russia, is 25 million years old. ...
Study Questions for Quiz #9
... What is an ‘accretionary wedge’? O f what is the ‘Mesozoic history of western North America a good example’? What are three examples of folded mountain belts? (fig 21.14) How is magma formed in a subduction zone? What types of rocks are produced from magmas in a subduction zone? What accounts for th ...
... What is an ‘accretionary wedge’? O f what is the ‘Mesozoic history of western North America a good example’? What are three examples of folded mountain belts? (fig 21.14) How is magma formed in a subduction zone? What types of rocks are produced from magmas in a subduction zone? What accounts for th ...
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... crust: the oldest is only 200 Myrs) and/or continental lithosphere (which contains continental crust: the oldest rocks are ~4 Gyrs old). Some plates are just oceanic lithosphere, some are both. ...
... crust: the oldest is only 200 Myrs) and/or continental lithosphere (which contains continental crust: the oldest rocks are ~4 Gyrs old). Some plates are just oceanic lithosphere, some are both. ...
(>8.0 magnitude, past 100 yrs) Active Volcanoes
... 5. The Inner Core is under so much pressure it does not move like a liquid; instead it is a: ...
... 5. The Inner Core is under so much pressure it does not move like a liquid; instead it is a: ...
The Earth`s Tectonic Plates and Continental Drift
... Ridge Push and Slab Pull Ridge Push – At mid-ocean ridges, the oceanic lithosphere is higher than it is where it sinks into the asthenosphere. Because of ridge push, the oceanic lithosphere slides downhill under the force of gravity. Slab Pull – Because oceanic lithosphere is denser than the asthen ...
... Ridge Push and Slab Pull Ridge Push – At mid-ocean ridges, the oceanic lithosphere is higher than it is where it sinks into the asthenosphere. Because of ridge push, the oceanic lithosphere slides downhill under the force of gravity. Slab Pull – Because oceanic lithosphere is denser than the asthen ...
DO NOT WRITE ON THIS PAPER Plate Tectonics Key Concepts
... large, single landmass that broke apart, and the continents slowly drifted to their present locations. What is the name given to this hypothesis? ...
... large, single landmass that broke apart, and the continents slowly drifted to their present locations. What is the name given to this hypothesis? ...
The Sevier Orogeny The Sevier orogeny took place at about the
... penetrating, steeply dipping reverse faults that deform and fault crystalline basement rocks. The Sevier orogeny was a more ‘thin-skinned’ deformation event. It is characterized by shallow thrust faults affecting only Paleozoic and younger sediments. The thrust faults bottom out into a décollement t ...
... penetrating, steeply dipping reverse faults that deform and fault crystalline basement rocks. The Sevier orogeny was a more ‘thin-skinned’ deformation event. It is characterized by shallow thrust faults affecting only Paleozoic and younger sediments. The thrust faults bottom out into a décollement t ...
Plate Tectonics and Continental Drift
... 27. What is climate? The average weather conditions over a long period of time. 28. Give an example of a change on Earth’s surface. South Georgia used to be on the ocean floor, and shark tooth fossils can be found in our back yards. 29. Is new lithospheric plate added or created? If so, where? Yes, ...
... 27. What is climate? The average weather conditions over a long period of time. 28. Give an example of a change on Earth’s surface. South Georgia used to be on the ocean floor, and shark tooth fossils can be found in our back yards. 29. Is new lithospheric plate added or created? If so, where? Yes, ...
WA Geology
... its unique rock type. These terranes were covered later by volcanic materials and complicated their interpretation. ...
... its unique rock type. These terranes were covered later by volcanic materials and complicated their interpretation. ...
WA Geology with film
... its unique rock type. These terranes were covered later by volcanic materials and complicated their interpretation. ...
... its unique rock type. These terranes were covered later by volcanic materials and complicated their interpretation. ...
Igneous and Metamorphic Rock Notes
... Igneous rocks are formed from molten (melted) rock that has cooled and become solid. Intrusive rocks are igneous rocks that solidify (become solid rock) beneath the Earth’s surface. Extrusive rocks are igneous rocks that solidify when it comes to the surface and spills out onto the land. Metamorphic ...
... Igneous rocks are formed from molten (melted) rock that has cooled and become solid. Intrusive rocks are igneous rocks that solidify (become solid rock) beneath the Earth’s surface. Extrusive rocks are igneous rocks that solidify when it comes to the surface and spills out onto the land. Metamorphic ...
First Quarter Exam Review Sheet Name
... Along which type of plate boundary do mid-ocean ridges occur? Draw diagrams that show how plates interact at each of the following: A. The Himalaya (continental-continental convergent boundary) B. San Andreas (transform boundary) C. The Cascades (continental-oceanic convergent boundary) D. The Mid-A ...
... Along which type of plate boundary do mid-ocean ridges occur? Draw diagrams that show how plates interact at each of the following: A. The Himalaya (continental-continental convergent boundary) B. San Andreas (transform boundary) C. The Cascades (continental-oceanic convergent boundary) D. The Mid-A ...
Optional GEOL 103 Writing Assignment KEY
... The P-wave shadow zone develops because the core-mantle boundary is an interface that cause refraction, resulting in shadow zone causing a subset of P-waves that originate at one point near the Earth’s surface to refract. P-waves can also refract at the inner/outer core boundary. This in turn causes ...
... The P-wave shadow zone develops because the core-mantle boundary is an interface that cause refraction, resulting in shadow zone causing a subset of P-waves that originate at one point near the Earth’s surface to refract. P-waves can also refract at the inner/outer core boundary. This in turn causes ...
Study Guide for layers or earth and plate tectonics 2017
... 11. What are created because of transform boundary’s? 12. What state (solid, liquid, gas) is the inner and outer core? 13. What layer or part of the Earth causes tectonic plates to move? 14. What causes the tectonic plates to move? 15. What is the name of the strong physical layer of the mantle? 16. ...
... 11. What are created because of transform boundary’s? 12. What state (solid, liquid, gas) is the inner and outer core? 13. What layer or part of the Earth causes tectonic plates to move? 14. What causes the tectonic plates to move? 15. What is the name of the strong physical layer of the mantle? 16. ...
GY 112 Lecture Notes - University of South Alabama
... flows have been incised by river valleys. because they can be traced all over the place. But tracing rocks in the Basin and Range is a pain in the butt. Lowly sedimentologists leave those rocks to the structural geologists (who in all truth are just as lowly, but more imaginative as far as correlati ...
... flows have been incised by river valleys. because they can be traced all over the place. But tracing rocks in the Basin and Range is a pain in the butt. Lowly sedimentologists leave those rocks to the structural geologists (who in all truth are just as lowly, but more imaginative as far as correlati ...
Chapter 9
... 2. Opening of an ocean basin 3. Deposition of sediment 4. Closure of the ocean basin along a subduction zone, associated with folding, metamorphism, and igneous intrusions. This closure welded the Superior province to the Hearne and Wyoming provinces to the west. ...
... 2. Opening of an ocean basin 3. Deposition of sediment 4. Closure of the ocean basin along a subduction zone, associated with folding, metamorphism, and igneous intrusions. This closure welded the Superior province to the Hearne and Wyoming provinces to the west. ...
Plate Tectonic Quiz Name: Label the four layers of the Earth Use the
... ____27. The layer in the Earth’s upper mantle in which rock is soft and weak because it is close to melting. ____28. Hawaii is an example of an area where a column of hot material rises from deep within a planet’s mantle and heats the lithosphere above it. This area is often the cause of volcanic ac ...
... ____27. The layer in the Earth’s upper mantle in which rock is soft and weak because it is close to melting. ____28. Hawaii is an example of an area where a column of hot material rises from deep within a planet’s mantle and heats the lithosphere above it. This area is often the cause of volcanic ac ...
an overview of the geology of the great lakes basin
... shallow sea rift basins on top of the older Archean rocks (2, 4; Figure 2). The Superior-type banded iron formations of the Lake Superior region were deposited during this episode. While these sedimentary rocks were deposited in northern Minnesota and Michigan's Upper Peninsula, to the south in Wisc ...
... shallow sea rift basins on top of the older Archean rocks (2, 4; Figure 2). The Superior-type banded iron formations of the Lake Superior region were deposited during this episode. While these sedimentary rocks were deposited in northern Minnesota and Michigan's Upper Peninsula, to the south in Wisc ...
MMEW Field Trip-99 - University of Minnesota Duluth
... slowly solidfied in chambers within the lava pile to form coarse-grained gabbro intrusions, some of which we now see as the Duluth Complex and the Beaver Bay Complex. After almost complete separation of the originally 40-km-thick continental (granitic) crust and its replacement by oceanic (basaltic) ...
... slowly solidfied in chambers within the lava pile to form coarse-grained gabbro intrusions, some of which we now see as the Duluth Complex and the Beaver Bay Complex. After almost complete separation of the originally 40-km-thick continental (granitic) crust and its replacement by oceanic (basaltic) ...
Great Lakes tectonic zone
The Great Lakes tectonic zone is bounded by South Dakota at its tip and heads northeast to south of Duluth, Minnesota, then heads east through northern Wisconsin, Marquette, Michigan, and then trends more northeasterly to skim the northern-most shores of lakes Michigan and Huron before ending in the Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, area.During the Late Archean Era the Algoman orogeny added landmass to the Superior province by volcanic activity and continental collision along a boundary that stretches from present-day South Dakota, U.S., into the Lake Huron region near Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.This crustal boundary is the Great Lakes tectonic zone. It is 1,400 km (870 mi) long, and separates the older Archean gneissic terrane to the south from younger Late Archean greenstone-granite terrane to the north.The zone is characterized by active compression during the Algoman orogeny (about 2,700 million years ago), a pulling-apart (extensional) tectonics (2,450 to 2,100 million years ago), a second compression during the Penokean orogeny (1,900 to 1,850 million years ago), a second extension during Middle Proterozoic time (1,600 million years ago) and minor reactivation during Phanerozoic time (the past 500 million years).Collision began along the Great Lakes tectonic zone (GLTZ) with the Algoman mountain-building event and continued for tens of millions of years. During the formation of the GLTZ, the gneissic Minnesota River Valley subprovince was thrust up onto the Superior province's edge as it consumed the Superior province's oceanic crust. Fragmentation of the Kenorland supercontinent began 2,450 million years ago and was completed by 2,100 million years ago. The Wyoming province is the continental landmass that is hypothesized to have rifted away from the southern Superior province portion of Kenorland, before moving rapidly west and docking with the Laurentia supercontinent 1,850 to 1,715 million years ago. Sedimentation from the GLTZ-rifting environment continued into the Penokean orogeny, which is the next major tectonic event in the Great Lakes region. Several earthquakes have been documented in Minnesota, Michigan's Upper Peninsula and Sudbury in the last 120 years along the GLTZ.