Relative and Absolute Dating
This principle determines the sequence of formation in layered rocks.
What is the Principle of Superposition?
An arch shaped fold with the oldest rocks at the center.
What is an anticline?
The amount of water moving past a given point within a given amount of time.
What is discharge?
Causes the formation of ocean waves.
What is wind?
Causes less rain on interior side of seaside mountain ranges.
What is a rain shadow?
A break in the geologic record due to erosion or non deposition
What is an unconformity?
A fold in rock of layered rock in which the beds dip toward each other from either side
What is a syncline?
An underground body of water.
What is an aquifer?
Changes in the ocean water level alone a coast due to sun and moon gravitation pull.
What is the tide?
Ventifact.
What is a rock or rock formation shaped by wind erosion?
Principle of Inclusions.
What is the principle that determines the relative age between a rock and pieces of rock that the rock contains?
A dip slip fault with a hanging wall that is lower that the foot wall.
What is a normal fault?
Porosity and permeability.
Two necessary characteristics of an aquifer.
A dangerous current sucking water out to sea.
What is a rip tide?
A shallow or dry lake formed in a closed basin.
What is a playa?
An atom with a different number of neutrons than protons
What is an isotope?
A dip slip fault where the hanging wall rides up above the foot wall.
What is a reverse fault?
Lowering of the water table due to water pumping.
What is the cone of depression?
The main source of beach sand.
What is a river?
Halite and gypsum.
What are some examples of evaporates?
An absolute dating method with a half life of about 5,700 years
What is Carbon 14?
The direction of the line formed by the intersection of a fault, bed, or other planar geologic feature and an imaginary horizontal plane
What is strike?
Meandering.
What is a mature, sinuous (curvy) stream or river?
Movement of sediment down the shoreline.
What is longshore drift?
Maximum amount of rainfall in a desert.
What is 10" annually?