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| organic substance even though crystalline |
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| not a solid. Elemental mercury is liquid |
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| Not crystalline in its structure |
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| The polymorphs graphite and carbon are not the same mineral but have identical chem formulas why? |
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| Both minerals are made of carbon but diamond has all its bonds covalent, whereas the sheets in graphite have covalent bonds within but Van der Waals bonds between them. |
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| What chemical bond is in the SiO4 tetrahedron? |
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| What chemical bond holds the sheets if mica together? |
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| What chemical bond is found in soluble mineral the halides? |
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| what chemical bond is mostly electrical conductive? |
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| Which mineral property distinguishes dense minerals like gold from less dense ones? |
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| Which mineral property is a function of the angle and number of planes of weakness in a crystal lattice? |
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| Which mineral group is common in rock forming minerals? |
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| sulfides, native elements |
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| mineral families that are common hydrothermal deposits. |
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| Mafic silicates vs felsic |
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| carbonate used in cement, lime |
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| sulfate used in plaster, drywall |
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| Gold, Copper, aggregate, silver |
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| top 4 mineral resources in Nevada |
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| the hightest rank/type of coal which produces the most energy per pound of fuel |
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| What year was the start of the modern oil industry and where? |
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porous rock in the subsurface where the oil has accumulated
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| nonporous rock overlying the reservoir that has kept the oil from migrating elsewhere underground |
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| blob like deposit of salt that has risen up from deeper layer in the sedimentary rock sequence, causing surrounding rocks to be domed upward |
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| an organic rich rock that when it was deposited had lots of plant materials and algae that later got converted to oil |
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| what currently is being mined in canada for natural gas in US |
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| found in great quantities in the ocean floor and permafrost |
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| The increase in temperature with increasing depth in the earth |
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| Where and how do rocks form magma |
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| decompression: midatlantic ridges, hot spots: hydration: subduction zones |
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| melt, crystals, volatiles |
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| fractional crystallization |
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| as magma cools minerals sequentially crystallize out following the ideal sequence shown in the Bowen reaction diagram |
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| intrusive, they cool more slowly than volcanic rocks and can be differentiated from their volcanic counterparts by having coarser phaneritic textures |
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| tabular intrusions that cross cut rocks |
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| tabular intrusions that form horizontally in between rock layers |
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| an intrusive ultramafic rock that the mantle is made of |
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| quartz, muscovite, k-feldspar |
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have the lowest crystallization temp and will be last to form.
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| linear features in ocean crust produced by offsers in axis of oceanic ridges |
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| over time, N and S poles have trade places and this results in magnetic anomalies. |
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| indicates a rock or continent has been rotated since it formed. In rocks it is frozen in place when the rock forms. |
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| what forces drive plate tectonics in the mantle |
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| what forces drive plate tectonics in lithosphere? |
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| slab pull, ridge push, slab suction. |
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| Convergent margins with subduction zones- |
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| has deep focus earthquakes |
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| Why are mid-ocean ridge earthquakes weak and shallow |
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| lithosphere is thin and weak |
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| a record preserved in rocks that indicater the orientation of the magnetic field |
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| difference between the expected strength of the Earth's main dipole field at a certain location and the actual measured strength of the magnetic field at that location. |
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| consists of the crust plus the top part of the upper mantle |
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| composed of warmer mantle that can flow slowly when acted on by force |
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| the belt of earthquakes in a downgoing plate |
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| linear belt in which continental lithosphere undergoes rifting or pulls apart |
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