Geology
Do you ever wonder why one river is straight and flows quickly while another meanders along curves and seems to be slow and peaceful, or how the mountains were formed? Geology is the study of the earth, its materials, and the processes acting upon them. It includes the study of rocks and minerals; and their formation, weathering, and metamorphosis. So, when you need an answer to a question about rivers, mountains, volcanoes, rock cycles, plate tectonics, or other geological aspects, our Geology category is the place to ask it.
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Ridges may form when two land masses push together from plate tectonics, eathquake upheaval, volcanic action, or similar...
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1. Valuable or economically important mineral deposits may be associated with igneous rock bodies. Examples are disseminated...
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It depends on what you're talking about. In the ocean, it is the current but just in general it would typically be rapids.
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Glacial drift. Glacial drift.
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The Grand Canyon as we know it today, was formed over a period of 18 milion years.
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The Gorge was formed as the waterfalls eroded itself back following the Niagara River.
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When magma, which is molten rock, cools, igneous rock forms. This can happen as a subsurface event, or it can occur as exposed...
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Dried lava would be an igneous rock such as basalt, pumice, or granite! Most people have these types of rocks at home.
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Granite is an intrusive felsic igneous rock, having formed under the surface by the slow cooling of magma which had intruded into...
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In a reverse fault the maximum principal stress is horizontal, compression causes reverse (thrust) faults.
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Transportation of weathered rock can occur via flooding, river, glacier, wind, landslides, earthquakes, meteor impacts, and...
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A few ways: 1. Water conserves heat2. The Ocean circulates large masses of water with heat (see #1)or acording to my sciece book...
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stratification: (noun) Formation or deposition of layers, as of rock or sediments
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Chemical and mechanical weathering, and erosion.
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The Earth's crust is composed of all three rock types; igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary. The bulk of it is igneous.
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Using standard radiometric dating of rocks returned from the Moon by the Apollo missions.
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Garnet, topaz, corundum, and diamond (in order of ascending hardness).
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It is mined in Pakistan (Kashmir region and Pakistan-Afghanistan border region) and is regarded as being of the finest quality....
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jade can be found at the very north of mongolia, or the hole east coast
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PLANTS WEATHER ROCKS BY GROWING IN THE CRACKS OF THE ROCKS AND GROWING SO BIG THERE ISN'T ENOUGE ROOM TO GROW SO THE ROCK CAN'T...
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it gives it waay more room!! no the glaciers moves across the land under it's own weight and the this causes rocks to push up to...
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It is Carbon 14
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A fold is a bend in a rock layer caused by forces within the crust of the earth. Folds usually occur in a series and look like...
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Antarctica is in the Southern Hemisphere, not the Northern Hemisphere. As well, parts of it are in the Eastern and parts in the...
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Hydrolyte geodes have been found in the South American country Brazil.
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Barite is barium sulphate. It is either colorless, white, light yellow, light blue, light green, light red. Can be used...
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When a mountain formes the ground pushes up. When this happens the rock that was on the other side of the plate gets smashed and...
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The closer the lines are together, the steeper the slope, the further apart they are the more gradual the slope.
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Physical weathering begins the moment a rock body is uplifted and fractured, or exposed to the atmosphere, along with it's...
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Erosion and weathering of igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks eventually leads to formation of more sedimentary rock....
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Less than 1 minute.
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There are two main methods - "high pressure, high temperature" (HPHT and also called BARS method), or you can go "ultra low...
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Sedimentary rock is formed from various sizes of rock or rock particles that have been deposited by wind or water over time. The...
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From about 300 million years ago to 180 million years ago.
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Topsoil is sometimes referred to as the A Horizon.
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It's called a delta.
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== Of course, the sun is not big enough to cover the whole earth at once. now, if the earth was flat, and was all on one side,...
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Ripples.
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A hollow rock with crystals in it. See the related link for more information.
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Pressure and heat will transform minerals into different minerals because of a number of factors, one being the loss of water...
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A scientist who studies rocks is a petrologist. Petrology is a sub branch of geology.Scientists that study rocks are called...
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Extrusive igneous rock is formed from the crystallization of minerals as the lava cools.
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It can be but its not necessary.
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Basalt is higher in rock hardness than that of coarser grained igneous rocks like granite Compressive Strength...
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magma becomes lava when it is released from underground.
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The rocks on the Mid Atlantic Ridge are among the youngest. The moment the magma that is being produced there cools enough to...
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Igneous comes from the Latin word ignis , meaning fire
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There are two classifications of igneous rocks: extrusive, those formed on the surface, and intrusive, those formed underground....
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(S)-Sedimentary (I)-Igneous (M)-Metamorphic Limestone-S Obsidian-I Slate-M Rock salt-Mineral...
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Absolutely.
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By origin and method of formation. Igneous--molten material, sedimentary--from sediments, metamorphic--from existing rock that...
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Fossils only appear, in a form that can be interpreted , in sedimentary rock. Sedimentary rock is formed of rock particles...
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S waves will not pass through magma.
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They are all metamorphic rocks.
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The Redwall limestone exposed in the Grand Canyon is a sedimentary formation of the Carboniferous Period.
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The Vishnu Schist rock at the bottom of the Grand Canyon.
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No, they are both polymorphs of carbon.
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The asthenosphere is a physical layer of the upper mantle which is directly below the lithosphere. The asthenosphere is composed...
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In 1948, the Geologist Van Anglin stated in his book Geomorphology (on page no. 27) that it is quite well understood currently...
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When a gas change to a solid directly without passing through the liquid phase, we call this process deposition.
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Colombia is considered to be the leading emerald producing country. The main mines of Colombia are located in Muso,Coscuez, and...
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A diamond is a crystalline mineral form of the element carbon. Igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary are descriptive terms used...
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small amounts of different elements .......:-)
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igneous rocks are the first type of rock to be Fredi dont come on here tis website again from your moma people lol come and get...
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The easiest way would be to strike it with a hammer. Pyrite will shatter and gold will not. There are also differences in weight...
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Motion is always defined relative to something. On Earth, motion is relative to the ground, and our brains are usually locked...
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A mineral can form when molten material solidifies, or when a saturated solution evaporates.
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Igneous rock which solidifies from magma underground is classified as intrusive igneous rock.
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more details on 1.Volcanic Plateau. 2. Tibetan Plateau.
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This is what I think it is because people gather them they break them and you never see them again and I'd you ask another...
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The Earth's core is thought to be predominantly iron (85 %) with some (4-5%) nickel and the remainder oxygen, silicon, hydrogen...
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A transform fault is one of the 4 types of boundaries where tectonic plates of the Earth's crust meet; it is a location where two...
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It is primarily caused by gravity.
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In the center of the Earth, starting at a depth from the surface of approximately 5,150 kilometers.
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The position of the layer compared to other layers.
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The pressure on an object increases with depth because there is more pushing on it. For example, four feet below the surface of...
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Thick accumulations of sediment form only in regions where the surface of the Earth's lithospehere sinks as sediment collects.
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The composition of a rock tells the scientist what the rock is made up of for example lava.The texture tells the scientist how...
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Minerals are the source of gemstones, metals, and other materials used to make many projects. gemstones are maid mainly for...
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mujhe night fault ka bahut problem hai mujhe kya karna chahiye
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hairy and very smelly
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Silt. One of the three primary components (silt, sand, clay) of soil.
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Uranium is the heaviest natural element found on Earth
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No. Although it is less dense, continental crust is much thicker than oceanic crust.Continental crust is thicker, averaging...
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Their texture and mineralogy.
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They are the result of an oceanic lithosphere to continental lithosphere convergent plate boundary.
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The solid mineral aggregates that form the Earth's crust are rock. The plastic like mantle is formed of superheated and partially...
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