Sedimentary processes and rocks
This sedimentary rock is non-clastic and composed of calcite.
What is limestone?
What is limestone?
The rock formed when limestone is metamorphosed.
What is marble?
The amount of water moving past a given point within a given amount of time.
What is discharge?
Causes the formation of waves on the ocean.
What is wind?
Coal, oil and gas.
What are fossil resources?
The percentage of metal in rock.
What is grade?
Nearest (small) town to the Resolution Copper Project.
What is Superior?
Special recreation and Native American site that will be collapsed by the Resolution Mine.
What is Oak Flats?
Stream pattern calculated by dividing rise over run.
What is stream slope/gradient.
General term for a sedimentary rock composed of rock or mineral fragments of any size.
What is clastic?
Rock formed from metamorphism of a quartz-rich sandstone.
What is quartzite?
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?
Allows for the creation of electricity from water moving through turbines.
What is a dam?
Rock or mineral material that can be mined and sold at a profit.
What is ore?
The collection of natural resource and socioeconomic resources concerns used to drive alternative development?
What are issues?
A common jewelry gemstone associated with copper mines, including the Sleeping Beauty Mine.
What is turquoise?
Main source of water used in the city of Tucson.
What is groundwater?
Breakdown of a rock in place.
What is weathering?
A metamorphic rock with foliation expressed as banding.
What is gneiss?
What are two rock or sediment characteristics needed for a good aquifer?
What are permeability and porosity?
A dangerous current pulling water out to sea.
What is a rip tide?
Two types of newer technology that has allowed more oil and gas production in the U.S.
What are fracking and directional drilling?
Arizona produces about 60% of our nation's share of this metal.
What is copper?
Allows the reduction of impacts to resources.
What is mitigation?
Prominent mountain range south of Tucson that includes Mt. Wrightson.
What are the Santa Rita Mountains?
Project that utilizes water from the Colorado River.
What is Central Arizona Project?
A sedimentary rock with large, rounded class.
What is metaconglmerate?
A metamorphic rock used for tile, countertops, and other decorative purposes.
What is slate?
Lowering of the water table due to water pumping.
What is a cone of depression?
The main source of beach sand.
What is a river?
A metal that releases energy through fission.
What is uranium?
The process of concentrating copper or other metals in liquid that separates concentrates from tailings.
What is flotation?
Method of mining proposed for the Resolution Mine.
What is block caving?
Northern Arizona meteor crater formed by impact about 50,00 years ago?
What is the Barringer Meteor Crater?
Arizona Department of Environmental Quality Specialist Matt Narter is heavily involved in this project.
What is the Tucson International Airport Area Cleanup?
Peeling off or outer layers of a rock due to removal of overlying rock and release of pressure.
What is exfoliation?
Large scale metamorphism usually associated with plate tectonics.
What is regional metamorphism?
Any place that an aquifer opens to the surface.
What is a spring?
Movement of sediment down the shoreline.
What is longshore drift?
Ore deposits common in and around the Grand Canyon, formed in part be collapse of rock into a cavern.
What are breccia pipes?
Supergene.
What is the type of metal ore concentrated through weathering processes?
A law passed in 1969 -1970, requiring analysis of impacts from a proposed activity, and transparency in that analysis.
What is NEPA?
A Bisbee copper mine featured in the Alfie Norville Gem and Mineral Museum, and consisting of many underground tunnels.
What is the Copper Queen?
A group of synthetic chemicals that are resistant to heat, water, oil, and grease, commonly found in manufactured items, and the cause of many health concerns, including cancel. The name is an acronym for "per" and "poly"....
What are PFAS (Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances)?
Note, these health concern causing compounds are used in waterproof fabric such as Nylon, yoga pants, carpets; shampoo, feminine hygiene products, mobile phone screens, wall paint, furniture, adhesives, food packaging, heat-resistant non-stick cooking surfaces.