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| Represents 14&, Largest reservoir of freshwater available |
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| Measurement of rock's ability to hold water |
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| Capacity of rock to transmit fluid through pores and fractures |
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| Subsurface in which rock openings are filled, Water table lies on top |
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| Water level at surface of most lakes & rivers correspond |
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| Flow Velocity of Groundwater |
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| Depends on slope of water table & permeability of rock |
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| Saturated fractured rock through which water moves easily, low porosity and permeability |
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| Unfractured rock that retards groundwater flow due to low porosity or permeability |
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| Has water table, Only partly filled with water, Rapidly recharged by precipitation |
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| Completely filled with water under pressure, Separated from surface by impermeable confining layer, Slow recharge |
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| Pharmaceuticals, Pesticides/Herbicides, Fertilizers, Feed lots Mercury, Gold Mining, Landfills, Heavy Metals, Bacteria, Viruses, Parasites, Industrial Chemicals, Acid Mine Drainage, Radioactive Waste, Oil, Gas |
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| Formed underground chambers by acidic groundwater dissolving limestone along joints and bedding planes |
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| Natural depression or hole in ground caused by collapse in surface layer |
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| Rolling hills, disappearing streams & sinkholes |
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| Intricately shaped formations grown by dripstone; stalactites (icicles) & stalagmites (cones) |
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| Effects of Groundwater Action |
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| Caves, Stalactites, Stalagmites, Karst Topography, Hot Springs, Geysers, Geothermal Energy |
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| Water heated by magma rises back to surface |
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| Shallow areas that adjoin continents, Used for commerce, recreation, fisheries & waste disposal, dramatic changes in salinity & temperature |
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| Proportion of dissolved salts to pure water |
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| Partially enclosed coastal body that is connected to ocean, Salinity is measurably reduced by freshwater flow of rivers |
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| How Estuaries are Classified? |
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| Classify by origin; Coastal plain, Fjord, Bar-built, Tectonic |
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| Fine grained & oozes on ocean floor, Consists of micrometeorites, volcanic ash, plankton |
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| 3 Major Provinces of Oceans |
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| Continental Margins, Ocean Basin Floor, Mid-Ocean Ridges and Rises |
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| Sediments accumulated, Can be moved down continental slope by Turbidity Currents |
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| Flat seafloor in deep water beyond continental slope, 4,000-6,000m |
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| Continuous mountain range, 65,000km, run through every ocean, Longest mountain range in the world |
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| In Atlantic coast, quiet, No major earthquakes or volcanoes |
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| Include oceanic trenches & greatly truncated continental slopes/rises |
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| Steep sided volcanoes rise abruptly from seafloor (islands) |
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| Submerged flat-topped seamount 1,000-1,7000 below surface |
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| Deflective force of Earth'r rotation on all free moving objects including atmosphere & oceans, right in Northern Hemisphere, left in Southern Hemisphere |
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| Movements of ocean water caused by density differences brought about by variations in temp and salinity |
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| Gravitational attraction from mostly Moon and a little Sun |
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| Also known as Ocean Basin Floor, flat dark plains on seafloor |
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Eon (largest)
Era
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Epoch (smallest) |
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| Tilted of folded sediment that overlays younger flat strata |
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| Strata on either side are essentially parallel |
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| Separates older metamorphic/igneous rock from younger sediment |
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| Fragments of other rocks contained in body of rock, Older than host rock |
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| Order of events/objects from first to last, Not specific |
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| Age of events/objects expressed numerically, Specific |
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Hadean (rocks from meteorites/moon)
Archean (earliest formed on Earth)
Proterozoic (organism w/ developed cells)
Phanerozoic (visible life) |
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Paleozoic (early life)
Mesozoic (middle life)
Cenozoic (recent life) |
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| Study of timing of geologic events/processes |
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| Used to determine age of rocks & fossils |
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| Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Mississippian, Pennsylvanian, Permian, Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous, Tertiary, Quaternary |
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| What are the dinosaur periods? |
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| Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous |
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| Which period was there an explosion of life? |
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| What period do we live in today? |
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| Quaternary; Man/Technology |
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| Most Important Geologic Agent in Eroding, Transporting & Depositing Sediment? |
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| Evaporation -> Precipitation -> Runoff |
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| 4 Major Drainage Patterns |
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| Dendritic, Radial, Rectangular, Trellis |
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| Factors Control Stream Erosion |
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| Slope, Discharge, Streamflow force |
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| 3 Ways Streams Transport Load |
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Dissolved load
Suspended load
Bed load |
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| Brought to stream by groundwater, dispersed throughout flow |
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| usually silt & clay mixed into water |
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| Move alone bottom of stream |
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| Winding stream with cut banks and point bars |
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| Channel in meander connects two closest parts in bend |
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| Discharge of stream exceeds capacity of channel |
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| Deepens channel of stream by removing sediment from bed |
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| Accumulation of sediment formed where stream enters lake or ocean |
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| Determined by differences in configurations of shorelines and variations in nature and strength of wave activity in shifting channels |
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| Flat low lying portion of stream valley subject to flooding, Formed by continuous lateral erosion caused by shifting of stream's meanders |
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| Wind erosion by lifting and removal of loose material |
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| Depression excavated by wind in easily eroded deposits |
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| Characteristics of Deserts |
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| Dry, Steep angular slopes, Orange, red, gray, brown rocks, Little vegetation |
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| Subtropical, Rain shadow, Coastal, Continental Interior, Polar |
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Barchan
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| Rocks that have been abraded, pitted, etched, grooved by wind driven sand |
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