Volcanoes
How does more viscosity affect volcanic eruptions?
What is more difficult to flow trapping gas.
When do Foreshocks occur
Before large earthquakes
What is Glacial Evidence and how does it prove Continental drift
Striations on ice caused by rock that show the direction of ice flow, supporting that the continent was moving in that direction.
A fault in which movement is parallel to the strike of the fault surface.
What is strike-slip fault?
glaciers suddenly pick up speed and ice travels towards the bottom the glacier
What is a glacier surge?
Type of the most powerful volcano
What is Stratovolcano?
The two types of body waves
What is primary and secondary waves?
Uses magnetic forces generated through the equator, also is a supporting option for Moving Crust
What is Paleomagnetism?
One type of unconformity
1. Disconformity
2. Angular Unconformity
3. Nonconformity
huge slabs of ice and snow that cover large areas of land for thousands of years
What is ice sheets?
The types of volcanoes we have in Arizona
What is Cinder Cone and Stratovolcanoes?
What log are earthquakes measured in
log base 10
Plate tectonics, erosion, chemical weathering and sedimentation are all examples of
Geologic processes
cause strike-slip faults
What is Shear? Causes tearing and smearing.
rocks that form by the cooling or freezing of magma
What is igneous rock?
What is the name of the Volcano that killed more than 30,000 people, including the destruction of St. Pierre in less then a minute?
What is Mount Pelee?
During an earthquake what causes liquefaction
Release of liquids due to shaking
Oceanic Convergent is
What is when two oceanic plates converge, one is subducted beneath the other along an oceanic-oceanic plate boundary?
One type of Fold structure
What is....?
1. Anticline
2. Syncline
3. Monocline
4. Basin
5. Dome
occur with change in elevation in the ocean floor, recognized by great speed in deep ocean.
What is Tsunamis?
The famous shield volcano covering Arizona
What is Olympus Mons
How long is the longest recorded earthquake?
Sumatra, Indonesia 2004, had an earthquake that lasted 10 minutes.
Earths estimated age
What is 4.6 Billion?
Rocks bend but return to their original position when stressed is released.
What is Elastic Deformation?
which silicate mineral has the greatest proportion of cations, crystallizes at the highest temperature, and is the most dense?(Green)
What is olivine?