Tectonics
The San Andreas Fault is this type of tectonic setting
What is Transform?
Which earthquake wave travels faster the S or the P wave?
The 3 chemical compositions of igneous rocks
What are mafic, intermediate, and felsic?
This measures the climate of Earth in the distant past
What are climate proxies?
Breccia, Siltstone, Conglomerates, Shale, and Limestone
What are sedimentary rocks?
The Himalayan Mountains are a result of this type of tectonic setting
What is convergent?
The point within the Earth where seismic rupture begins
What is the focus
VEI is a term used in volcanology. What does it measure?
What is Volcanic Explosivity Index?
Methane, Water Vapor, and Carbon Dioxide
What are greenhouse gases?
Granite, Gabbro, and Diorite are ______igneous rocks
What is intrusive or phaneritic?
Basin and Range, the Rio Grande, and the East African Rift Valley are examples of what type of tectonic setting
What is divergent?
The 2 types of surface wave
What are Raleigh and Love waves?
The dominant type of volcano found in the Pacific Northwest
What is a stratovolcano?
Eccentricity, Obliquity, and Precession
What are Milankovitch Cycles?
Marble and Quartzite
What are non-foliated metamorphic rocks?
What are normal faults?
The Richter scale is a __________ scale
What is logarithmic
The dominant type of volcano found in the Hawaiian Islands
What is a shield volcano?
End Ordovician, End Devonian, End Permian, End Triassic, and End Cretaceous
What are mass extinctions?
Pumice and Scoria texture
What is vesicular/aphanitic?
What are normal and transform faults?
In 1964, one of the largest earthquakes ever measured was a M 9.0 earthquake. The tectonic setting for this earthquake is a ___________ setting.
Convergent
the longest lasting, most voluminous eruptions in the history of the Earth
What are Large Igneous Provinces?
The study of the rise and fall of sea level over geologic time
What is sequence stratigraphy?
Gypsum, Dolomite, and Halite
What are evaporites/inorganic chemical sedimentary rocks?