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| Two places in the US that overlie a Hot Spot. |
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| Mauna Loa and Yellowstone |
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| form primarily from subsidence but can be from huge explosions like Santorini |
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| particularly fast moving destructive glowing cloud white hot fragments and gases. |
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| Mono Craters; Mammoth Lake. Used to be inside but volcano erode away. |
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| Two areas that have had massive basalt flow from fissure eruptions. |
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| Mid Atlantic Ridge and divergent plate boundaries. |
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| Two states where there large batholiths |
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| What type of plate boundary that causes most volcanoes |
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| Three main types of volcanoes and there characteristics |
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| Sheilf Cinder and Composite |
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| List 2 types of lava flow, their general appearance, and relative speed of flow |
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Pahoehoe- very fluid, fast-moving, ropey appearance when cooled; composed of little quartz and called Mafic Basalt
Aa- viscous, slow moving flows; cools to form jagged surface with sharp spines |
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| 2 Places in the continental US that may be the next volcano eruption |
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| Yellowstone Monocrater/Monolake |
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| List 5 indicators of an upcoming volcanic eruptions |
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| more tremors, tilt of cones, temperature of fumarole gases, greater level of carbon dioxide, loss of magnetic magnetism |
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| Term for the large wave formed by an earthquake of violent volcanic eruption. |
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| Name for a tabular discordant intrusion |
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| name for a tabular concordant intrusion |
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| name for a lenticular concordant intrusion |
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| two types of massive discordant intrusions |
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| do crosscutting relationships like intrusions allow absolute age-dating of country rock and why |
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| Type of mass-wasting that is confined to a channel |
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| special type of mudflow caused by eruption of volcanic ash on snow ice on the sides of the cone |
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| type of mass-wasting involving snow |
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| type of mass-wasting that causes hummocky topography |
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| type of mass-wasting common where rocks are tilted |
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| Type of mass-wasting that causes the most monetary damage nationwide |
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| Means to prevent or slow down mass-wasting |
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| retaining walls, rock bolts, injection of grout, deep-rooted vegetation, steps on the sides of the roads |
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| the transfer of rock and soil downslope under the influence of gravity |
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| all lava flows; the largest in size; very broad with shallow slopes of less 10% ex. Kilauea Hawaii. LARGEST |
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| all pyroclastic material; greater than 30% slopes; steep sides but these are the smallest types ex. Sunset Crater Arizona. |
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| Composite or Strato-Volcamo |
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| alterating lava flows with pyroclastic flows or eruptions ex. Mt. St. Helens, WAS |
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| worlds most perfect shaped volcano |
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| Mono Craters; Mammoth Lake. used to be inside but volcano erodes away |
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| 85% of all volcanoes are along the... |
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| nearly all volcanoes are ... |
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| massive outpourings of lava along a fissure of fault. more lava comes from these compared to volcanoes. |
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| likely killed the dinosaurs and 70% of life; eruptions in Brazil at the same time; evidence. |
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| end of Permian: 90% of all life became extinct on the planet. Jurassic. continual fissure eruptions and gasses |
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| Asteroid Theory on Dinosaur Extinction |
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| Iridium present in meteorites; rare in crust and found in lava. |
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| Hawaii- Mauna Loa eruption |
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| quiet pahoehoe flows of basalt; on-going; shield volcano; over a hot spot |
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| 1980. Washington; violent pyroclastic eruption; nuees ardente, pyroclastic flows, and mudflows |
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| 1882 violent pyroclastic eruption; tsunami killed 36,000 Indonesia area |
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| Mt. Pelee, martinique Island |
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| Carribean 1902 deadly nuees ardente |
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| layer of dust worldwide that cooled down the Earth producing a severe winter; Iceland is on the Mid-Atlantic Rift. year of no summer. dark and hazy |
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| 1500 BC believed to be the Lost Continent of Atlantis |
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| what are the 2 types of craters |
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| the vent issues hot gases for long periods of time ...Mt. Fuji |
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| If the hole is less than 1 mile across it is called a ___. |
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| If the size of the hole is greater than 1 mile across is called a ______. |
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| Would there ever be a volcano in LA? |
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| What is the only mineral that is naturally magnetic |
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| any body of intrusive igneous rock, usually granite; named for the roman god of the underworld |
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| What is the geothermal gradient is ? |
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| lenticular and concordant |
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| pluton cuts across existing rock; layers if sedimentary |
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| pluton does not cut across the pre-existing rock |
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| freeze thaw.. part of rockfalls |
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| table top shaped concordant |
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| large irregular shape discordant |
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| is the first step in the process of erosion and transpiration of sediment, as well as, the formation of soil. |
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| Factors affecting weathering |
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| rock structures, topography, vegetation, organisms, climate. |
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| physical weathering processess |
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| crystal growth, expansion due to unloading, thermal expansion |
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| causes granular disintegration particularly of granitic rocks composed of different crystal types. differential expansion and contraction of crystals. |
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| a type of poor soil formed on granite and composed primarily of the crystals that make up granite |
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