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Weathering
Soils
Sedimentary
Relative Dating
Absolute Dating
100
This occurs when water moves into a crack, freezes, and causes expansion.
What is frost wedging?
100
O, A, E, B, C
What is the order of soil layers?
100
These are the three main sedimentary environments.
What are continental, marine, and transitional?
100
This law explains the rock on the bottom is the oldest while the rock on top is the youngest.
What is the law of superposition?
100
the age of the year according to absolute dating?
What is 4.6 billion years?
200
This type of weathering produces new minerals.
What is chemical weathering?
200
Climate
What is the most dominating factor that influences soil?
200
Examples of these include rounded coarse or very fine.
What is a clastic texture?
200
A type of unconformity that provides tilted strata beneath an erosional layer and horizontal sedimentary structures above.
What is an angular unconformity?
200
the point at which the parent and daughter product for a radioactive element intersect on a graph represent
What is the half-life?
300
This process allow for a chemical reaction to occur with oxygen.
What is the oxidation process?
300
This layer makes up most of the organic matter and mineral matter in a soil profile.
What is the top soil (O & A horizons)?
300
A medium clastic rock, made of silica, that is red in color.
What is a hematitic quartz sandstone?
300
This princple provides understanding that a fault is younger that the rock layers the fault moves through.
What is the principle of cross-cutting relationships?
300
The percent of a parent left after 4 half lives?
What is 6.25%?
400
This type of rock chemically weathers through a dissolution process.
What is limestone?
400
Soil type for 35% clay, 40% sand, 25% silt
What is a clay loam?
400
The location origin of bituminous coal.
What is a swamp?
400
Youngest rock layer in this puzzle: http://facweb.bhc.edu/academics/science/harwoodr/geol101/labs/dating/index.htm
What is layer F?
400
Age of an original 10 gram mineral sample, has a half-life of 1.3 billion years, and has gone through 3 half-lives
What is 3.9 billion years?
500
This location around the world is where chemical weathering is more dominate than physical weathering.
Where is the equatorial region?
500
Soils present in a grassland area
What is a mollisol?
500
If a rock fizzes with the addition of acid, this mineral is found in the rock.
What is calcite?
500
When a stratigraphic column proves sea level went up when limestone is on top, then shale, then sandstone.
What is transgression?
500
Amount of an original 10 gram mineral sample, has a half-life of 1.3 billion years, and has gone through 3 half-lives
What is 1.25 grams?