Rivers
These river systems are common in glacial environments where a stream has a hard time transporting the entire bedload of sediments
What are braided rivers?
What are the 3 rock types?
Igneous, Sedimentary, and Metamorphic
Rock type for Marble
What is non-foliated?
What was the direction of subduction during the Sonoma orogeny?
What is westward?
K. Sean looks like he is in his late thirties to early 40's. Why is this?
Years of clean living and self-denial
Braided river sediments
What is sandstone?
What is breccia?
Rock type for gneiss
what is foliated?
What was the direction of subduction for the orogenies after the Sonoma Orogeny?
What is eastward?
This mineral is renown for retaining lead isotopes that decay from uranium, and therefore can be used to date very old igneous rocks
What is a zircon?
Cut banks and Point Bars are found in
Sea level rise leaves this package of rocks from the top down
What are limestone, shale, and sandstone?
An intruding magma body cooks the country rock
What is contact metamorphism?
This type of deformation is linked to the Laramide orogeny
What is "thick-skinned"?
The capital of Lichtenstein
What is Vaduz?
3 Meandering river rock types in the Willamette River?
What are conglomerates, sandstones, gravels?
Parent rock for quartzite, slate, and marble?
What are sandstone, shale, and limestone?
This type of metamorphism creates the vast majority of metamorphic rocks
What is Barrovian?
What is are two leading causes hypothesized to have triggered the onset of Basin and Range extension?
What are slab tear off or slab rollback?
Where can I find both normal and transform faults?
What are seafloor spreading centers?
Fluvial system at the end of a river system
What is a delta?
You find amphibolite, quartzite, slate, marble, overlying younger basalt, sandstone, shale, and limestone. What type of depositional and tectonic environment existed at this location?
What is a nearshore and convergent margin?
This type of metamorphism is common in Subduction Zones
What is Blueschist?
What do the Siberian Traps, the Rifting of Pangea, and the Deccan Traps in India cause? What event are they?
What are Large Igneous Provinces and Mass Extinctions?
material shed by upgoing mountain ranges and downgoing subducted ocean slabs
What are molasse and flysch?