That's Gniess
This rock cooled so fast it turned to glass.
What is obsidian or basalt glass?
Largest Plate in the world.
What is the pacific plate?
Height of water above the datum.
What is elevation head?
Mechanical breakdown of rocks into minerals.
Mechanical breakdown of rocks into minerals.
The king of Barstow
Who is Barstow Ben or Ben?
Mineral properties are determined by the arrangement of these.
What are atoms?
When earth’s mantle behaves like a viscous fluid over geologic time.
What is isostasy?
When the base flow is entering a stream.
What is a gaining stream?
Weathering, uplift, transportation, and burial are all components of this process
What is the rock cycle?
This team won the 2018 World Series
What is The Boston Red Sox?
A mystery mineral cannot be scratched with a fingernail or a copper penny, but it can be scratched by a steel nail. What is its hardness?
more than 3.5 but less than 6.5
Based on observations alone, not derived in physics.
What is paleomagnetism?
When precipitation hits a plant surface
What is interception?
Unconsolidated solid fragments of pre-existing rocks
What is sediment?
During Fashion week, this female rapper threw a shoe at Nicki Minaj
Who is Cardi B?
This is the ratio of the density of a mineral to the density of water.
What is specific gravity?
Based on observations alone, not derived in physics.
What is empirical?
Water bearing stratum that is confined by a rock layer that doesn’t not transmit water in any appreciable amount or is impermeable.
What is a confining aquifer?
Physical and chemical compaction of sediment to sedimentary rock.
What is diagenesis or lithification?
This person designed last year’s club t-shirt
Who is Kalie?
One chemical composition can form different minerals.
What is polymorphism?
Surface on which (gravitational) potential remains constant.
What is equipotential surface?
The soil moisture content below which plants cannot extract water.
What is the wilting point?
Particles of fluid move uniformly as parallel sheets or filament and never intertwine.
What is laminar flow
The name of Osborn’s dog
What is Joey?