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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You would attempt to scratch a crystal face of a mineral with a known Mohs hardness with the point of the nail. For instance, if...
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The way I found them was I went to the Sunflower Meadow and found Iridessa and asked to find jewel stones in the cave and I found...
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Many structures are built out of sandstone, but not statues or any kind of fine art. When you go to the beach, you are lying on...
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The Mohorovicic Discontinuity, generally referred to as the Moho, where seismic waves increase in velocity.
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Ferrous metals are metals that contain iron, or more commonly recognised as magnetic.Non ferrous metals don't contain iron...
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Composed of every form and type of existing particles, debrises and detrituses.
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boundaries that rub together. they do not go up in elevation but slide in opposite direction
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Quartz crystals are the naturally occurring crystalline structure of the mineral (quartz) with an atomic arrangement of silicon...
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This is a physical change because wind and erosion are part of the physical category. Chemical change is where things happen...
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The inner core is a solid.
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Erosion is the result of processes that pick up and transport material at or close to the earth's surface. Erosion in geology is...
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The theory of uniformatarianism.
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Clay + chlorite, mica, quartz, biotite, hematite, pyrite
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The Cumbrian mountains are situated in England. The Cambrian mountains are in Wales.
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When water freezes it increases it's volume. So,if it freezes in a crack in the rock, it will exert pressure in the rock. This...
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these are the 5 types of classifications for wetlands. 1. MarineAssociated with the open ocean and high-energy coastline waters ...
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Glass is manufactured primarily from the mineral quartz (SiO2) which is what sand is made from. However small amounts of other...
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That would be called erosion.
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An increase in weight to the crust due to thickening from plate collisions, build up of sediments, or glacial override will...
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I know that the angiosperms were most dominant during the cretaceous period but im not too sure about the dinosaurs dominant era....
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Iron is the main ingredient.
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The Alliston and Mount Albert Aquifers are two of the purest sources of clean water known to exist in the world. Located in...
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It depends on the condition, size, color, form, and rarity of the specimen.
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It is called a divergent plate boundary.
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Seismic waves are caused by a sudden slip on a fault. The tectonic plates are always slowly moving, but they get stuck at their...
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Felsic lava
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Yes, it usually has a more smooth surface.
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volcano or a island arc
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because it is combination of difference elements in such also color must vary
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Of a rock, composed entirely or principally of a single mineral.
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Na2B4O7·10H2O or Na2[B4O5(OH)4]·8H2O
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A rock is composed of two or more MINERALS, and a mineral is composed of one type of substance, like copper.
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high capillarity
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Luster is a property that describes the surface of a mineral. All minerals have surfaces, therefore, they all have luster. The...
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It is when two ig rocks form together due to a landslide that engulfes the matter and hardens over thousands of years. It is a...
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noncrystalline glassy texture
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The Earth was formed approximately 4.55 billion years ago (plus or minus about 1%). For about the first billion years of the...
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The four instruments that are used to detect movement along faults are Tiltmeter, Creep Meter, Laser-Ranging device, and GPS...
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Glacial plucking.
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im not sure, but i know that overtime eating chalk can form balls of fiber ( hair looking) in ur stomach.
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isochron
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Rate of cooling and chemistry.
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sedimentary rocks.
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Stalagtite.
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Radioactive decay in the inner core of k40 U238 and Th232 cause the earths internal heat plus lithostatic pressure (pressure of...
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Petroleum
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depending on how deep the rock is in the ground tells scientists how old the rock is
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Younger layers are deposited on top of older layers, whether the layer is sedimentary or volcanic. Occasionally faults may result...
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The base level
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It is called Superposition.
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because its just a question
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The word seismograph is the old fashioned term for a seismometer. They both perform the same function (recording the amplitude,...
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CHARACTERISTICS OF IGNEOUS ROCKS :-1.These rocks are hard, massive and compact.2.These rocks areformed by cooling and hardening...
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If you meant the Fe in the transition elements, then it means iron. Iron is represented by Fe because iron's Latin name is ferrum.
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This relates to the bowen's reaction series (http://jersey.uoregon.edu/~mstrick/AskGeoMan/geoQuerry32.html) This shows how the...
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Well i guess if you want to grow up and become something that has to deal with rocks and minerals, there is one reason. The study...
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This is called a river delta.
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It would be easier to say how they are different. Both physical and chemical weathering can cause pitting, erosion of material...
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calcite is usually transparent
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divergant plate boundaries (the most famous being the mid ocean ridge)create new ocean flooors this is called sea spreading
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i just dont know !
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The next type of seismic wave to arrive after the P-wave is the S-wave.
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Metamorphic rocks are catagorized into two main types: foliated and non-foliated. Three examples of foliated metamorphic rocks...
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Horizontal shearing at tectonic plate boundaries results in a special type of strike slip fault known as a transform fault.
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first its not a question so if volcanoes formed from magma it will be a igneous rock.search me up on roblox.com my account name...
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Because rocks are naturally occurring materials.
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They chiefly cause earthquakes, and could also result to landslides and tsunamis.
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Catastrophism
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Foliation is a texture in metamorphic rocks caused by deformation (commonly shearing) which in turn causes the crystals within...
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Brimstone is better known as Sulphur. The colour is lemon yellow
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The mid-ocean ridge is formed along a divergent or constructive plate boundary between two plates of oceanic crust. A classic...
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This is known as the lithosphere.
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A glacier. Please see the related link for more information.
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The Precambrian is infact divided into 3 - the Hadean (4500-3950 Ma), Archaean (3950-2500 Ma), and Proterozoic (2500-542 Ma)...
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Foliated
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Chalcopyrite, hematite and pyrite are not magnetic, however magnetite is. Pyrrhotite, a mineral similar looking to pyrite is also...
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This depends at what point on Earth's surface you are interested in! For example the Mid Atlantic Ridge separating the North...
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Organic means to be made with carbon. More importantly for geology it means to made either by or from the remains of a living...
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Yes. Calcite and aragonite, for instance. Two minerals can share the same chemical formula but have different properties. These...
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Iceland
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Organic, it's formed from dead sea creatures
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if the climate is low (cold) or raining then the fossils could get erodes
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Dolostone is technically a sedimentary rock, although it's easy to understand why some might consider it to me metamorphic. In a...
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Because people all are slept at nights, so their reactions surely are more and more slower than their reaction in days.
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