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organic materials =
metamorphic and use oil and gas which is metamorphic of organic material
reykianes ridge
mid ocean ridge on land
analog
model of something
magma
molten fluid rock
older oceanic crust =
more dense; older subjected, young less dense and override the older
hekkla
most dangerous volcano
fault plane
motion and rupture (like pond ripples)
fractures represent
mountain ranges were narrowed by
in the lithosphere
move and slide where hot soft rock below and broken into plates
divergent
move apart
within 250 years all continents
move to the middle make new supercontinent
convergent
move together because dense
mediterranean sea
near dead ocean
flood basalt
new ocean floor in the making
Pangea II
next 250Ma
andesitic volcano
steep, pointy tops; spurt lots
iOS Alamos
nuclear bomb built
collect data from ocean shows that
ocean cover 70% of land
subduction
ocean recycling where move across deep trench
subduction zone (convergent)
oceanic plate slide under continental plate
paleo
old, ancient
law of superposition
oldest rock at bottom young rock at top
stratogophy
ordering rocks bilayer
each plate has
own pole of rotation, plate dont move complete straight line but ROTATE
telegram
paper record outdoor
Uniformotarianism
passport for travel where present is past
paleo environment
past environment
how seismograph works
pen move up and down when happen
ouzo Wilson said
permanentise
ULVZ: ultra low velocity zones hot rock on core and mantle boundary
planet cool with hot rock rise and cool rock sinks
rocks vertical from horizon because
plate collisions
lithoprobe tell how
plate move and minerals we use artificial generated p waves
convection
plate movement at surface
triple junction
point where three plate boundaries intersect
Canadian Shield age
precambrian shield
cacading earthquake
propagate along north Anatolian fault
matching rock types of the same age from one continent to another to
reconstruct pangea
brown field
reuse of old industrial areas
continental break up
rift then ocean, there is a max width before closes
salt accumulated from
rifts during Pangea breakup and formation or early Atlantic ocean
heat from mantlecurrent
rise at MOR spreading centre
plumes of mineral rich water
rise in ocean so nutrients to sea life
folds go certain depth
rock melt so fast
phaneritic
rocks cooled slowly and grainy
lithosphere
rocky sphere
ropey lava
rope like
aa lava
rough and broken and skin broken up
conglomerate
round rock fragments with old material
central metasendimentary belt
same stuff in Canadian Shield
product of erosion
sand
magma push cracks
seafloor spreading
Bullard technology convince people that
seafloor spreading happened
lithification
sediments with pores where minerals precipitate ut
ground penetrating radar
send radio waves to subsurface and get subsection of earth
preliminary determination of epicentres
set up to tell that nuclear treaty was followed. tells plate boundary and when major subduction uses to be used for nuclear testing
east pacific rise consists of
shallow water
erte volcano
shield volcano small dome with lava lakes and flows on surrounding
marine geophysics
show how rock layers arranged at depth
transform
slide past
columnar basalt
slow cooling lava flow
parasitic crater =
small margin
seismic reflection
sound source reflect geological units and pick up by hydrophone
Anthropocene: the epoch of man
begin with invention of steam engine, we modify landscape too much
lines on map represent
flow of ice sheet on land
igneous rocks type 1
formed at convergent margins and acidic (silica rich) andesite typical of continental crust and associated with stratovolcanoes
ridges
friction = earthquakes
dike and fissure eruptions
gap where magma from
drumlines
glacial hills left behind
Jokulhlaup
glacial outburst flood
subduction zones
goes down, cold ocean floor crust
zircon rocks
hard to see with eye, made by volcanic erruption
horsts
high
further away means
high lag time
crust thick
high realize (himilayas) no volcanos
magma
hot and crystallize cool at death = intrusive igneous rock (long time to cool)
precipitation
hot water rise and cold mineral go down
black smokers
hot water vents
radioactivity tells
how old rocks are
structural geology
how rocks bend and fold
epicentre
, intense freictionthe point on Earth's surface directly above the focus
shield volcano
A low, flat, gently sloping volcano built from many flows of fluid, low-viscosity basaltic lava
North America and Europe can be fitted together
1600, Francis Bacon
an ancestral continent
1858, Snider Pellegrini
Earth's plan
1910, Frank Taylor
continental drift and pangea
1915, Alfred Wegener
mantle conviction currents
1928, Arthur Holmes
mid ocean ridges and trenches
1957, Marie Tharp and Bruce Heezen
ocean floor gets mapped by
1960
sea floor spreading
1962, Harold Hess
Computer reconstruction of pangea
1965 Edward Bullard
wander paths for continents; magnetic strips the ocean floor
1965 Ted Irving; Fred Vine
transform faults and hot spots
1965, tuzo wilson
plate techtonics
1968, tuzo wilson
supercontinent cycle
1974, John dewey
rate of our plate
3.17cm/yr
velocity of p wave
5-7 km/sec
oceanic crust thickness
5-8km thick
1570
first world atlas; globalization
passed idea around reject by North America but published by Scotland. earth interior is radioactive (hot and produce heat). convection currents on mountains (pull crust apart) this result in continental drift
Arthur Holmes (1928)
salt diapirs
Barry salt giant pillars
people said the response to continental drift was negative and knows as
German fairy tale
Eyjafjallajokull
Iceland volcano
our plate
North American plate
ancient ridges (ophiolite)
basic structure of MOR and key role of dikes
Pangea
all the lands
transform fault
allow spreading on either side mid ocean ridge by dividing ridge in to pieces
volcano is considered as
analogue
ophiolite
ancient oceanic crust and MOR exposed on land because ocean closure, when rock in water turn green bc metamorphism (basalt altered by serpentation) newly ocean floor crust subducted
convergent margins (wet magma)
andesite and granite (silica rich) magma sift fas reflected explosively. lots of water and not melted with sea water. very dangerous because explosive volcano which are steep and pointy tops
before earthquake gets precursor earthquakes
animal picks up
s wave
arrive later with velocity 3-5km/s and slower
failed arms
aulacogen
metamorphic crock is
barred by depositd of more rock onto and change appearance of because of heat
gneiss-granulate high grade metamorphic
base of crust to tell lithosphere plater to move on top
low topography
below sea level 48 degrees
some magma is also
blood like flow
motorcycle
bmwGS1200; 650 cc triumph bonneville
igneous rocks type 2
born in fire and ignite to fire. formed at divergent margins are basic (iron rich and silica poor) such as basalt typical of oceanic crust associated with shield volcano
Pangea lad to
break up
fractures
broken rock
crusader fortress of street on the Jordan river
build on transform plate
interglacial is what we live in and translates to
bw ice ages
shadow zones
cant record info
what continent at the middle of supercontinent
china
fault scarp
cliff made by downward movement
look at rock type at continents and see
climate where rock deposited
endorheic
closed water body, water flow in not out and concentrate minerals in water makes it hyper saline water
mountains result of
compressed earth crust
types of fault
compressor (up), extension (down)
types of crust
continental and oceanic
obduction zone (convergent)
continental crust converge with continental crust, two plate buckle
permanentism
continents are mobile
continents broken up by
convection currents
finding mineral resources
copper deposit
S wave cant go through
core (this is why we think the core is molten
p wave go through
core (we cant record) can go through fluids not solid
lithoprobe
create own earthquake with fibrosis trucks (dancing elephants) help to model earth interior
downgrading slab
crust got heavy and skink back down to mantle
arctic
crust recover after ice age ice sheet push and recover
direction ripples in rock show
current flow
supercontinent cycle
cycle break and connect
magnetic reversals where
dark = normal, light = reverse
4B years earth electromagnetic field stop therefore no life on earth means
dead planet
plume area has
decompression melting
hess idea of seafloor spreading reasons
demonstrate seafloor spreading and proof continent mar grating and know width stripe and change in polarity can tell rate of sea floor spreading and how magma produced
swath bathymet
depth line
smokers
different colloid
Intrusive (plutonic)
dikes
weathering
disintegrate to sediments
silica heat near boundary high heat
divergent
how new ocean made
divergent plate boundary
types of tectonic plates and plate margins
divergent, covergent, transform
drilling ocean floor to confirm seafloor spreading
drill 7km of water and can recover cores
German record
drill land get to 13 km deep and at sea 8km deep
divergent margins
dry magma basalt and gabbros (all silica poor). melted with sea water makes wet magma, continental crust grew 70% before
since watershed blocked runoff to creeks
due to construction
shield volcano has very thin crust
each layer is a flow from past
expanding earth model
earth get bigger and expand like balloon
focus
earthquake
triangulation where all intersect is the
earthquake
363 AD
earthquake of petra
Viscosity
ease fluid can move
soil erosion
easily moved by water and wind when forest cut down
mappings ocean floor use
echo sounder, sound source, hydrophone, swath bathymetry, seismic reflection, sidescan tow vehicle
Wilson cycle and the history of oceans
embryonic (starting), mature (opening), dying(pacific rim of fire bc ocean die)
S wave (seismic)
energy produced by seismic activity
force field paleomagnitism
episodically earth magnetic field flips
Quatemary, earliest homitides
era we live in
pillow basalt
erupt at surface on seafloor and cool quick to rounded pilloes
p wave
expand and contract I direction energy move and arrive first; travel 5-7km per second
silica rich
explosive magma dangerous
East African rift
few years embryonic ocean die and new supercontinent cycle
echo sounder
find Russian submarine
aphanitic
fine grain and reapid
how triple junction work
first crust under has plume that heats up ground, 2 arms widen and be an ocean third arm fail because not an ocean
obduction missing
igneous
hyaloclastite
igneous rock water contact
rock cycle
igneous, metamorphic, sedimentary
hyaloclastite breccia
in water rounded fragments, take concrete and break into many fragments
crinoid (sea lily)
index fossil
trilobite
index fossil
plates inside
intraplate (within)
Ash is not burning of coal
it is when gas of magma and rocks pulverized to dust (tephra)
when surveyed shorelines noticed that they were all tilted up north which means the
land on crust high when ice left crust go up
continents are embedded in
larger plate tectonics
apparent polar wander curve
late 1950, key evidence continent move and rotate
extrusive
lava flow
surface waves
lave wave and Rayleigh wave (ver destructive of buildings)
lines on mountain near volcano show
lawyers of lava flow and direction of reversal, date rocks and tells what happened
continental crust thick
less than 70 km thick 6km/sec
riser drilling system of chikyu
like coke bottle let go pressure bit by bit
dikes
like pages of book bush everything up apart
Igneous rock (intrusive)
long time
grabens
lows
stratovolcano
made by contaminated magma, Shield volcano , magma get thin crust
zircon rocks made by
magma, cool, move by water, look at chem
andesite and granite
make continental crust
decompression melting
mantle plumes rise from magma
ash layers
many ash eruptions
seismograph
map diff body waves surface of planet, around exterior tell why buildings torn apart
magnetometer
measure earth magnetic field
GPS
measure rate od spreading
what flow
measurements by seismic demography shows that the earth's deep interior is more complex than the onion skin model
Ma=
mega annam (mill of years)
plate kinematics
study of motion and how plate move each plate rotate around
petrology
study of rocks
hydrology
study of surface water (river, lakes, etc)
trace fossil (iconology)
study of trace fossils
active margin
subduction
continental shelves not of west coast because
subduction not a lot of continental shelves
reykjavik(smokey bay)
suffer smell, drill to get hot water, district heating project with hydrothermal energy
souffrir (carribian word)
sulfur
when get back together plates
supercontinent cycle
Nickel-iron meteorites
surface pattern because outer mantle is stripped away
magnetic reversals are
symmetric at the mid ocean ridge
geological systems
tell rock types and see if water can move down
Red Sea push up north rift this
terminate in turkey
describe igneous rock by
texture and chemical composition
Mohorovicic discontinuity (moho)
the boundary between Earth's crust and mantle
fault trace
the intersection between a fault and the ground surface
hydrogeology
the study of underground water
embryonic
thick salt deposits
core, mantle, crust
thin
Young rocks are covered on the
top
White Island new Zealand
tourist destination where it was a active volcano and 17 people were killed
Dead Sea rift
transform plate boundary be Arabian and African plates
WWI air photos makes
trench maps
new oceans form by
triple junction and failed rifts
embryonic ocean
triple junctions, failed rift and continental shelves such as East African rift, Red Sea, Jordan and turkey
flat topped Moberg mountain
tuyas bc volcanic eruption under ice cap
green field
untouched area
zircon rocks chemical composition
uranium isotope as parent
pahoehoe lava
very flood and ocean floor crust
contracting and cooling earth model
very little like apple wrinkled
rich magma means
very low density
push one plate into another
volcanic arch
tephra
volcanic ash
igneous rock (extrusive)
volcanic glass cool qui and melt = glass and obsidian dark coloured glass
how hot spot mades
warm seafloor/plate, volcano appear, plate move and volcano die making volcano chain
white smokers
warm water vents
ripples in rock caused by
water current
asthenosphere
weak sphere
sedimentary rocks are made by
weathering and disintegration of rocks
rift
when crust begin to break up and widen
epicentre
where damage max
hotspot
where hot rock come up
frequency of earthquake pick out
where plate colliding and tell plate boundary
paradime
worldview in a different light
rock location
youngest in centre old at sides