Sedimentary, My Dear Watson
Carbonate My Sandwich
Metamorphic Rocks: Can you handle the pressure?
Rock of Ages
Hey, I Know These Words Too!
100
_______ are located when sediment accumulates as land meets water.
What are deltas?
100
This is the difference between the windward and leeward side of reefs.
What is Windward- exposed to climate and wind, where the nutrients are. Leeward- smaller coral, less developed, location of the lagoon. Windward high energy environment- coarse grain sediment, Leeward low energy- fine grain sediment
100
________ is an example of a mineral associated with high grade metamorphism.
What is garnet?
100
We are currently in this eon.
What is Phanerozoic?
100
Metamorphism of a broad region, usually the result of deep burial during an orogeny.
What is regional metamorphism?
200
Out of these minerals _______ is the most durable. olivine amphibole quartz pyroxene
What is quartz?
200
The more sediment put into the oceans, the more ______ will occur.
What is precipitation?
200
This type of metamorphism will occur where magma heats bedrock.
What is contact metamorphism?
200
This is when the Cambrian began.
What is 500 million years ago?
200
The transformation of loose sediment into solid rock through compaction and cementation.
What is lithification?
300
The sorting, energy, and viscosity of a glacier will be ____, ____, and ____.
What is low, high, low?
300
Name a way carbon can be transferred from the atmosphere to the geosphere naturally.
What is chemical weathering and dead animals and plants?
300
The role of water in prograde metamorphism.
water is lost from the rock
300
The oldest part of a continent.
What is a shield?
300
Layering formed as a consequence of the alignment of mineral grains, or of compositional banding in a metamorphic rock.
What is foliation?
400
Rock A has traveled a long distance. The shape of Rock A is probably ______ and the sorting is probably _____.
What is round and well sorted?
400
The carbonate feature found in the Bahamas is ________.
What are carbonate platforms?
400
This is how metamorphism pressure and temperature relates to diagenesis and melting?
Melting (high temperature, lower pressure), metamorphism (high temperature and pressure) diagenesis (lower temperature and pressure)
400
This era means ancient life.
What is Paleozoic era?
400
A long-lived block of durable continental crust commonly found in the stable interior of a continent.
What is a craton?
500
If a sedimentary rock has ripples, its depositional environment probably contained ____.
What is water?
500
This is how plate tectonics and affect the carbon cycle.
What is through volcanic activity and ocean currents?
500
This is the grain structure of porphyroblasts.
What is fine-grained matrix enclosing a large crystal?
500
The age of shields.
What is around 2 billion years old?
500
The process of extracting carbon dioxide from sources (e.g., power plants) and sending it back underground to keep it out of the atmosphere and diminish the greenhouse effect.
What is carbon sequestration?
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