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| What is structural geology? |
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| Study of shapes, arrangement, and interrelationships of bedrock units and the forces that cause them. |
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| What are the types of stress? |
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| compressive, tensional, shear |
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| change in size or shape due to stress |
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| What are the types of rocks in relation to stress/strain? |
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| elastic, brittle, ductile |
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| At what point does an elastic rock deform permanently? |
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| Ductile deformation involves |
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| Brittle deformation involves |
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| On the top of a fold (through an anticline) |
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| A fault is considered active if movement has occurred within the last... |
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| 11,000 years (last ice age) |
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| A thrust fault has a degree of ___ and is what kind of fault? |
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| 30 or less from horizontal and reverse fault |
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| San Andreas is what kind of fault? |
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| right-lateral strike-slip |
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| What are the types of faults? |
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| dip-slip, strike-slip, and oblique slip |
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| A fault is classified as right or left lateral by the ____ |
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| direction of the far block |
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| Two examples of major earthquakes in the past 20 years |
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Wenchuan - 2008
Indian Ocean Earthquake - 2004 |
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| Love waves and Rayleigh waves |
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| fastest, passes through solid and liquid, compressional, vibration direction parallel to propagation direction |
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| second fastest, passes only through solid shearing, vibration direction perpendicular to propagation direction |
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| elliptical motion (like ocean waves), destructive to buildings |
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| earthquake magnitude difference of energy per level |
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| Destruction caused by earthquakes |
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| building damage, fire, landslides, liquifaction |
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| caused by upward motion of sea floor |
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| When and where was an earthquake predicted? |
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| 1975 - Haicheng - 5 years before |
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| What are the three major resource categories? |
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| energy, metals, non-metallic |
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| discovered and obtainable resources |
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| discovered and undiscovered resources everywhere |
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| where are the two major oil fields in america? |
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| 3 alternative petroleum sources |
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| heavy crude oil, oil sand, oil shale |
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| iron, copper, aluminum, lead, zinc, silver, gold |
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| construction (sand, gravel, gypsum), agriculture (N, P, K), industrial (rock salt, sulfur), gemstone (diamonds, rubies) |
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| what percent of fresh water are glaciers? |
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| accumulation, compaction, re-cyrstallization of snow |
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| ice sheets (continental), alpine/valley (mountainous), ice caps, piedmont |
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| deep steep-sided inlet of the sea |
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| unsorted earth and stones carried and deposited by a glacier |
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| (accumulation) landforms made of till, including lateral, medial, and end moraines |
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| between 2 million and 10 thousand years ago |
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| peak of most recent ice age and what was the water level |
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| 18 thousand years ago - 100m lower |
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| how much of the land was covered in glaciers during the last ice age |
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| how much of the land is covered in glaciers now |
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| When were two older glaciations? |
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| late Paleozoic and late Precambrian |
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| late Paleozoic was when and where |
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| 250 million years ago and Gondwanaland |
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| late Precambrian - when and what |
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| milankovitch cycles explain what how |
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| ice age cycles - orbit and axis of earth |
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| 80% of the world's ice - 67% of fresh water - sea rise 60-70 meters |
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| what percentage of Alabama and Georgia's water comes from surface water? |
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| drainage divide of the continental USA |
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| drainage divide of Auburn |
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| Highway 14 (Loachapoka Highway) |
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| what is the formula for the discharge of a river? |
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| rivers with large discharge |
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| Amazon, Mississippi, Yangtze |
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| difference between water and wind gap |
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| what affect does urbanization have on lag time? |
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| what are the four rocky planets? |
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| Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars |
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| what are the four gas planets |
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| Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune |
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| what direction do planets orbit the sun? |
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| where is the asteroid belt? |
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| Venus's atmosphere is made of what and how big is Venus relevant to Earth |
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| thick CO2 and similar diameter to Earth |
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| mars is how big and what is its atmosphere made of? |
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| 1/2 Earth diameter, thin CO2 air |
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