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Geology/ Terrestrial Processes Flashcards

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Extrusive igneous rocks

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Rhyolite, basalt, gabbro

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Intrusive igneous rocks

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Granite

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Two cleavage

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Feldspar

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One cleavage

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Muscovite

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Three cleavage

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Halite

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How many years is quaternary

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2.58 million years

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How old is the earth

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4.5 billion years

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Oceanic crust

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Thinner, more dense homogenous, young

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Continental crust

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Thicker, less dense, heterogeneous, old

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Rayleigh wave

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Particles move in rotating fashion

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Love wow

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Fastest, moves ground side-to-side horizontally

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Surface waves

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Through earths crust, low frequency than body waves cause earthquake damage

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Shearwave

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Move through solid rock, move perpendicular to direction of wave propagation

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Body waves

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Move through solid rock and fluids, same direction as wave propagation

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Magnetite

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Ferromagnetic

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Contact metamorphism

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Temperature only, not pressure

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Metamorphism regional

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Temperature and pressure formed at ornery dewing collision of lithosphere plates

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Metamorphism→ increasing

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Slate, phylite, schist, gneiss, migmerite

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