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1 of the 3 different rock types. formed through cooling of lava
basalt, obsidian, and pumice
igneous rock is formed when the lava from the valcano erupts and the lava cools into a igneous rock |
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made through the depotsition of the sediment transported all through water.
rivers, lakes, oceans
sandstone, siltstone, shale
sedimentary rocks are formed through water
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rock that has had changes on it by heat pressure
marble, slate, gneiss.
metamorphic rocks are changed by heat
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the process of what rocks go through
weathering, heat, eruption.
it shows what rocks go through on a daily basis
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process a surface goes through
removes rock, soil, dissolved material.
this happens at the beach at the shore
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weathering (physical & chemical)
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rocks that break apart
waves crashing on shoreline
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continental drift
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earths continents that are related to eachother moving
fossils of the freshwater crocodile found in Brazil and South Africa.
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theory of plate tectonics
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divided into layers
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he was a cartographer and geographer, creator of the first modern atlas.
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| british geologist that had made 2 contributions to the understanding of geology |
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he was a german polan reasearcher
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| The large northern continent is called Laurasia and the southern continent is named gondwanaland |
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he was a geologisy and a us navy officer in world war II
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it was a super continent that had existed during the very late paleozoic and early mesozoic times. it broke all apart 175 years ago
America, India, Australia |
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occurs at mid-ocean ridges. new oceanic crust is formed through the stuff that happens in the valcanoes.
helps explain the continental drifting
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original rock
The first igneous rock of all time is the parent rock.
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Sand
broken down rocks
can be found at beaches
any rock
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sand, or clay that had water run through them and had deposited as sediment
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It is a layer in the soil
can be made into different things, pottery, can be molded, dried and baked |
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spoil horizon parallel to the soil crust
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lithospheric plate movement
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| plates that travel over the mantle |
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super continent in northern hemisphere that broke up into north america
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