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occur naturally, inorganic solids
granite |
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| Most abundant elements in the earths crust |
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- Kimberlite pipes
- 200 km into the mantle
- 100 million years old
- Africa, Russia, Austrialia
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- from sediments
- sedimentary
- Sandstone and shale
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- from a solution
- sedimentary
- limestone chalk
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- inside the earth, slow to cool
- igneous
- Granite
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- outside of the earth, fast to cool
- igneous
- Basalt
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- layered
- metamorphic
- slate
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- Non-foliated
- Type of rock
- Ex
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- not layered
- metamorphic
- marble
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| Where are mineral resources found? |
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| Hot spots and subduction zones |
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| marine microscopic zooplankton and algae |
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| 3 oil producing countries |
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Fragmented volcanic rock ejected upward Ash |
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- Mafic
- amount of silica
- Ex
- viscosity
- temp
- type of erruption
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- 50% silica
- Basalt
- low viscosity
- hot
- quiet, fluid erruption
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- Felsic
- amount of silica
- Ex
- viscosity
- temp
- type of erruption
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- 70% silica
- Rhylites
- high viscosity
- cool
- loud explosive erruption
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- Intermediate
- amount of silica
- Ex
- viscosity
- temp
- type of erruption
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- 60% silica
- Andesites
- most common on land over suduction zones
- high viscosity
- cool
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| Mid-ocean ridges composition |
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| Subduction zone composition |
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- Shield volcano
- composition
- ex
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- large broad dome
- Basalitic
- Hawii, Iceland
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- Composite/ stato volcano
- Composition
- Ex
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- tall steep peaks
- andesitic
- Mt. St. Helens, Mt. Vesuvius
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- Cinder Cone
- Composition
- Ex
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- steep, small peak; short lived
- basalitic
- Sunset Crater
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4.6 byo - 540 myo 86% of time |
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540 my - 250 my amphibians and fish |
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| processes that shaped Earth in the geologic past |
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| Priciple of Original Horizontally |
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| when sedimentary rocks are deposited tey are parallel with the surface of the earth |
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| Principle of Superposition |
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| older rocks are at the bottom |
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| Principle of cross-cutting relation |
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| anything newer cuts through anything older |
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- reproduce
- metabolize
- change/ evolve/ adapt through time
- capture/ transmit energy
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| 98% of mass of every organism is |
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Two large mass extinctions dates |
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Permian-Triassic 250 mya end Cretaceous (K/T) 65 mya |
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Causes of Mass extinction (5) |
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| 1. Plate tectonics/ volcanic 2. Climate change 3. Ocean currents change 4. Biological 5. Impacts; cosmic radiation |
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