Weathering
The type of weathering when water gets into the cracks of rocks, freezing and breaking off chunks of rock.
What is frost wedging?
When the eroded rock is placed somewhere.
What is depositon?
The names of all your guides at our GOTG fieldwork.
What is?
True or False: An Epoch is bigger than an Era.
What is false?
The type of glacial erosion that grabs rocks and transports them into the glacier, depositing them later down the valley.
What is plucking?
The type of weathering caused by ice, water, and wind mechanically removing bits of rock.
What is abrasion?
One of the three main rock types that is most susceptible to erosion.
What is sedimentary?
The most common type of weathering currently happening at the park.
What is plants/animals?
True or False: The Mesozoic Era is older in time than the Cenozoic Era.
What is true?
The 2 conditions needed to form a glacier.
What is snow and cold temperatures?
What weathering is.
What is breaking down the rock?
The geologic feature when sediment is deposited down a mountain. It has elevation change and consists of larger-sized sediment.
What is an alluvial fan?
The ancient environment that the beautiful red rocks formed in.
What is an ancient sea/sea shore?
The names of the 3 periods when dinosaurs were alive.
What is Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous?
The type of glacial erosion that smooths the rock like sandpaper.
What is glacial polish?
The type of weathering that chemically alters the rock.
What is hydrolysis?
The geologic feature when sediment is deposited at the mouth of a river. It is rather flat, underwater, and consists of small-sized sediment.
What is a delta?
The cause of the rock layers being flipped 90 degrees and jutting vertically into the sky.
What is tectonic uplift?
The name of the period when the beautiful red rocks at GOTG were formed.
What is Permian?
The 4 types of glaciers found in Mountains.
What are Cirque, Valley, Fjord, and Piedmont?
What upward expansion is.
What is tectonic forces push up the rock, causing stress and cracking, followed by falling sheets of rock?
The 3 types of load in stream erosion.
What is solution, suspension, and bed load?
The geologic event that occurred approximately 70 MYA that caused Pikes Peak to push up and the rock layers at GOTG to flip vertically.
What is the Laramide Orogeny?
The name of the Era when Pikes peak formed.
What is Precambrian?
The type of glacial erosion that cuts lines or grooves in the rock.
What is glacial striations?