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| first to describe the origin of mountians |
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| Father of Histroy: compared fossil shells on the banks of the Nile to similar living animals in the river |
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| Who decreed the Earth was created on a certain day and when was it created |
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| Archbishop of Ushher: April 15th 4004bc at 9:30 |
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| Name the three Laws of Geology |
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| Principle of Superposition, Principle of Original Horizontality, Principle of Original Lateral Continutiy |
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| Who is the Father of Geology |
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| Who wrote the first geology textbook and what was his doctrine? |
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| James Hutton, the present is the key to the past. |
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| Who created the handbook to all geologists along with the principle of cross-cutting relationships |
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| Who is Jean Louis Agassiz |
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| swiss who created the concept of ice age |
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| Who first explored the Grand Canyon and what was his title |
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| Major John Welsey Poweell and he was the first head of the US Geological Survey |
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| How old are the rocks beneath MTSU |
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| Which Eon represents 85% of the Earths history |
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| Most of the Rocks in TN are from what Era |
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| Paleozoic meaning ancient life |
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| What kind of rocks are mostly missing from tn/era |
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| What kind of rock is basalt? |
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| composed of loose particles that have been cemented together |
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| changed by heat and pressure |
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| What kind of rock is limestone? |
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| What kind of rock is granite? |
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| What kind of rock is sandstone |
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| what kind of rock is marble |
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| metamorphic from limestone |
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| what kind of rock is shale |
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| What kind of rock is slate |
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| What is the radius of the earth |
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| What is the outer layer of the Earth called? |
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| How thick is the Earths crust |
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| The crust and the uppermost mantle is called the ... and describe it. |
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| lithosphere which is cool and rigid |
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| The lower mantle is called what and describe it |
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| Asthenosphere which is hot and capable of flow |
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| Which is thicker, continental or oceanic crust? |
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| What makes up the continental crust and how thick is it? |
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| What makes up the oceanic crust and how thick is it |
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| The cores of the continental crusts are called |
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| How many plates are there on earth |
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| How fast do the plates move |
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| Name the 3 plate boundaries |
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| Divergent, convergent and transform |
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| Describe divergent boundaries and give example |
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| spreading cores like the mid-atlantic rift |
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| Describe convergent boundaries and ex. |
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| oceanic plates subducting under a continental plate create trenches and most of the volcanoes come from these. Two continental plates cliding creates a rapid uplift of land masses. Himalayas |
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| Describe transform plate boundaries and ex. |
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| one plate is sliding by anotehr without subduction or colision San Andreas Fault |
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| Which was the last continent to move to its present postition |
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| Give evidence for Plate Tectonics |
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| 1) matching mtn. chains. 2) matching fossil records 3). matching of coasts 4). gps measurements 5). matching of rock types and glacial record |
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| naturally occuring and a unique combination of elements |
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| combination of 1 or more minerals |
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| top layer is younger than beds below |
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| law of original horizontality |
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| sediments are origianlly deposited as horizontal layers |
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| law of cross-cutting relationships |
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| faults must be younger than the bed intrusions that they cut |
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| fractures in rock layers but no displacement of beds. all rocks have them |
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| Name the three fault types |
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| Reverse fault, normal fault, strike-slip fault |
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| due to compression there is a collison of plates. a thruts fault is a low angle reverse fault. creates valley and ridge province |
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| due to tension, pull apart. common in basin and range |
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| what is a strike-slip fault |
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| plates sliding by each other |
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| Name the two kinds of folds |
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| Give an example of an anticline and define |
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| Nashville dome. linear upbending of rocks. |
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| linear downbending of rocks. |
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| What kind of rocks are best to date |
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| Difine litification and what kind of rocks does it apply to |
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| occurs through compaction and cementation and sedimentary |
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| Blue Ridge Unaka Mtns. rock types |
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| PreCambrian gneiss, shists, slates, and granite |
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| ocoee, Gatlinburg, State Park |
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| Camrian and Ordovician limestone, dolomites, sandstones, and shale. |
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| Valleys are normally what kind of rocks |
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| limestone, dolomite or shale |
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| Ridges are usually what kind of rocks |
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| Chatt, Knox, Kingston, Morristown, Johnson City |
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| Penn aged coal, conglomerates, sandstone and shale |
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| Cumberland Plateau cities |
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| Eastern and Western Highland Rim |
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| Mississippian aged rocks, limestone |
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| Eastern Highland rim towns |
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| Cookeville and Manchester |
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| Western Highland Rim Towns |
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| Clarksville, Dickson, Lawerenceburg AND FT PAYNE CHeRT |
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| Cretaceous and Tertiary, unconsolidated sand. Paris, union city, jackson, memphis |
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| What do we use garnet for |
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| what do we use sandstone for |
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| what do we use sandstone for |
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| what do we use sandstone for |
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| what do we use sandstone for |
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| Reduced copper and color example |
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| Oxidize copper color and example |
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| rubys and saphires are both what mineral |
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| Shale is made of what kind of mineral |
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| what is kalonite used for |
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| What is used for oil spills and kitty litter |
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| Montmorrillanite and bentonite |
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| hollow rock filled with crystals |
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| What do we use to make wallboard |
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| When baking amethyst, what happens |
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| Central basin. Cities and rock |
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| Ordovician limestones, Nashivlle, Murfreesboro, and Shelbyville |
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| Do the Blue Ridge Mtns have gnesis, shist and granite? |
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| Cumberland Plateua has Ordovician Limestone. T/F |
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| F. it has Pennsylvanian conglomerate, sandstone, shale, and coal. |
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| Which areas have FT. Payne Chert |
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| Eastern Highland Rim, Western Highland Rim |
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| Which areas have limestone? |
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| Western Highland Rim, Valley and Ridge, Eastern Highland Rim, and Central Basin. |
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| Where is Dickson and what kind of rocks |
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| Western Highland Rim, Miss limestone and ft.payne chert with gravel |
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| Does cookeville have chert? |
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| yes it is in the eastern highland rim |
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| Penn conglomerate sandstone shale and coal. because it is in the cumberland plateau |
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| Where can you find gneiss schist from the precambrian |
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| Where can you find creataceous and tertiary rock |
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| Paris, Jackson, Memphis and Union City in the coastal plain |
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| removing letters or syllables from the middle of a word |
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| ommission of conjunctions between words, phrases clauses |
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| omission of words easily supplied |
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| an orderly enumeration of points to be discussed |
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| conjoining contrasting ideas |
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| a seemingly self-contradictory statement which yet is shown to be true |
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| the analysis of an issue into its constituents parts |
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| clear lucid vivid description |
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| clear lucid vivid description |
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| stopping suddenly in midcourse leaving a statement unfinished |
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| breaking off a discourse to address some person or personified thing either present or absent |
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| the emotion appeal that evokes laughter rather than sadness |
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| recalling ideas events or persons of the past |
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| implied metaphor extravagant metaphor |
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| teaching a moral by means of an extended metaphor |
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| repetition of the last word of one line or clause to begin the next |
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| repetition of closing word or words at the end of several successsive clauses, sentences or lines |
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| repetition of a word with a new signification after the intervention of another word or words |
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| use of a conjunction between each clause |
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| refrain, frequent repetion of a phrase or question |
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