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| Evidence of plate tectonics |
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-continental fit
-similar rock sequences
-mountain ranges
-glacial
-fossils
-Magnetic field
-paleomagnitism
-sea floor spreading |
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-spreading centers
-volcanoes
-faults, dikes, lava, rift valleys |
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| Mountain building metamorphism |
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| volcanic island arc, ocean trench |
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| ocean continent convergence |
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| ocean trench, volcanic mountain range, andes |
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| continent continent convergence |
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| interior mountain belt, alps |
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| transform faults, connected to ridges |
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| mantle plum, asesmic ridges, hawaii |
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| natural, inorganic, crystalline structure |
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| quality and intensity of light from surface |
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| quartz- light; galena dark |
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| breakage in smooth parallel plains |
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| measured on the Mohr Scale |
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-silicate
-oxide
-carbonate
-native elements
-phosphate
-halide
-sulfide
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| most common mineral (light) |
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| solid aggregate of one or minerals |
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| doesnt have Fe or Mg, light |
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-mass of molten rock under the surface
-exposed after uplift an erosion
-Granite is most common in plutons
-cools under surface |
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| magma that reaches the surface |
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| 2 branches of origin of magma |
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| discontinuous and continuous |
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mafic rock formed
the richest in silica melt first |
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intermediate and felsic magma
magma rises through crust and gains silica |
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mantle plume
flood basalts |
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| course grained, intrusive |
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| lava cools so fast no crystals form |
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| explosive volcanic activity |
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| upper mantle oceanic crust, volcanoes |
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| less common ocean lower crust |
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| most common intrusive, continental |
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| black, red, grey, high in silica |
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| volcano glass, holes, white |
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| holes, more crystialline than pumice |
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| three things volcanoes can be |
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| active dormant or extinct |
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| form lava tubes by margins cooling |
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| ropy surface, less viscous |
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| rough and jagged, more viscous |
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| pressure on crust from flowing lava |
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| columns held by fractures |
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| cools underwater rapidly so no crystallization |
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volcanic ash
lapilli
block/bomb |
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| low rounded, like a hill, like a sheild |
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| small steep bowl like a crater |
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| most common. looks like it is supposed to look |
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| bulbous mountains like a blob |
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| ring of fire, plate boudaries |
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| mafic magma, no explotions |
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| felsic magma, composite volcanoes |
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| detecting a volcanic eruption (7) |
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| physical and chemical changes, tiltmeter, geodimeter, gas emmmisions, ground water levels, volcanic tremor |
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| physical breakdown and chemical alteration of earth materials near or at the surface |
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| components of erosion (4) |
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| running water, wind, glaciers, marine currents |
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| structures made by differential weathering (3) |
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| Mechanical weathering components (5) |
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| frost action, pressure release, thermal expansion and contraction, salt crystal growth, biotic |
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| chemical weathering components (4) |
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| O2, H2O, acids, organisms |
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| derived from solutions (shells) |
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| cumulative weight of sediment reduces pores space and volume deposit |
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| precipitaion of minerals within pore spaces |
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| layers at an angle from where deposited |
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| formed by turbitity current |
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| metamorphic rock changes by (3) |
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| heat, pressure, fluid activity, |
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| magnetic heat and fluid to change |
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| differential pressure associated with deformation |
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| major mountain building episodes |
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| differential pressure, one mineral |
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| mosaic equidistant minerals, buncha minerals |
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| location where fracturing begins |
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| where the focus meets the crust of the earth |
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| where is focal point deeper |
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| shear waves move material |
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| timeframe, location, strength, seismic risk maps. |
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| planar rock features are crumbled and bent |
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| monoclines, synclines, anticlines |
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