Defintion
A type of rock that forms when particles from any type of rock are pressed and cemented together
-forms due to erosion and weathering of other rocks
What is sedimentary rock?
More "Eco-friendly", costly, mining is done along the same height of a mountain
What is contour mining?
1977, requires coal strip mines to reclaim the land (more on a state level)
What is surface mining control and reclamation act
Travel through solids only.
what is s (secondary) wave?
plates move apart
What is divergent plate boundaries
-places where molten material from the mantle reaches the lithosphere
what is hot spots?
uses giant machines to expose minerals, devastates land by removing trees and habitats
what is open pit mining?
Authorizes the sale of federal public lands for the purpose of mining hardrock minerals and fuels
what is Mining Law of 1872?
travel through solids and liquids, longitudinal wave
what is P (primary) waves?
Boundary between two plates that are sliding past each other also called a slip strike fault
What is transform plate boundaries?
One plate (denser) going under another plate (lighter) when they collide
What is subduction?
Devastating habitats and ecosystems,coal mining that destroys a mountaintop
Known as Superfund, prohibits and requires concerning and abandoned hazardous waste sites.Two response action:Short-term removals and long-term remedial response actions
What is comprehensive environmental response, compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA)?
They can occur closest to the surface.
what is Surface waves?
an area where plates move toward one another and collide
What is convergent plate boundary?
A type of rock that forms from an existing rock that is changed by heat or pressure
What is metamorphic rock?
More "Eco-friendly", smaller parts of land being mined
what is strip mining
created by the EPA, manages and regulates solid waste, hazardous waste, protect groundwater from underground storage tanks.
what is Resource Conservation and Recovery Act(RCRA)?
layers with the most Fe (iron), Ni (Nickel), and S (Sulfur)
what is outer core and inner core?
It states that Earth’s lithosphere is divided into a small number of plates that float on and travel independently over the mantle, with much of Earth’s seismic activity occurring at the boundaries of these plates.
What is Plate tectonic theory?
result from the cooling and solidification of hot fluid materials (magma)
What is igneous rock?
An example of Transform boundaries
What is san andreas fault in california?