Chapter 8 Part 1 Flashcards

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John Wesley Powell

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led expedition on Colorado River through Grand Canyon in 1869

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James Ussher

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-wrote comprehensive history from creation to 70 AD (fall of Jerusalem)

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James Ussher wrote

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“Annals of the World” 1654

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Dates in James Ussher’s history

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  • 4004 BC–>creation week
  • 2348-7 BC–>Noah’s Flood
  • 1921 BC–>call of Abram
  • 4 BC–>Birth of Jesus Christ
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1611

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King James Bible published

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“Young-earth” creationism (YEC)

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  • earth is thousands of years old

- Noah’s flood explains rocks and fossils

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Nico Steno

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young-earth creationist that

  • established early rules for interpreting sedimentary rocks
  • fossils are former living organisms
  • rocks of the Alps were formed during different stages of the flood (accepted for hundreds of years but challenged in late 1700s)
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challenges to rocks of the Alps being formed during different stages of the flood

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1) Were all rocks and fossils formed by Noah’s flood?

2) Was Ussher’s date of creation correct?

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tenets of catastrophism

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1) Earth is ancient
2) Earth’s geology was formed by many catastrophes over time (Noah’s flood is only the most recent catastrophe)
- God created whole new species and ecosystems after each catastrophe

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Novel interpretations of Genesis

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Day-age theory and gap theory

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day-age theory

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the word ‘day’ should be reinterpreted to mean vast periods of time

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gap theory

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there is a gap between Genesis 1 and 2 that God didn’t document where dinosaurs existed

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Georges Cuvier

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“spokesperson”/”architect” for catastrophism

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James Hutton

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  • uniformitarianism

- wrote “Theory of the Earth”

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Charles Lyell

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  • uniformitarianism

- wrote “Principles of Geology” 1830-33

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uniformitarianism “motto”

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“The present is the key to the past”

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actualism

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  • descension from uniformitarianism

- the events and structures of the geologic record were caused by processes much the same as those seen today

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2 Peter 3

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there are events that are unlike anything we have/are/will experience

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2 types of geologic dating

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  • relative dating

- “absolute” dating

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relative dating

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placing rocks and geologic events in sequence and order

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law of original horizontality

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sediment (or ash falls and lava flows) tend to be deposited in flat sheets in a horizontal position

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law of superposition

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for sediments, older sediments are at the bottom and younger sediments are at the top

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principal of cross-cutting relations

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younger features will cut across older features (ex. fault, dikes (volcanic pipes)

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rule of inclusions

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if a rock (A) contains pieces of another rock (B), then rock (B) must be older than rock (A)

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unconformities
surface that represents a break in time (due to non-deposition or erosion) during sedimentation
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uniformitarianism
the physical, chemical, and biological laws that operate today have also operated in the geologic past
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Can relative dating tell us how long ago something took place?
No, it only tells us that it followed one event and preceded another
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conformable
when we observe layers of rock that have been deposited essentially without interruption
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Does any place on earth have completely conformable strata?
no
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unconformities represent
significant geologic events in Earth history
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angular conformity
- most easily recognized | - consists of tilted or folded sedimentary rocks that are overlain by younger, more flat-laying strata
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disconformities
- more common but usually less conspicuous | - strata on either side are essentially parallel
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nonconformity
-separates older metamorphic or intrusive igneous rocks from younger sedimentary strata
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correlation
the process of linking rock units over distances in which they are unseen
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2 types of correlation
physical and temporal
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physical correlation
same type of rocks/minerals
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temporal correlation
same age in time
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Correlation over short distances is often achieved by noting
the position of a rock layer in a sequence of strata
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fossil
any evidence of past life in the geologic record
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paleontology
the scientific study of fossils that blends geology and biology
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body fossils
hard parts of an organism
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petrified
when silica invades cavities and pores of the original structure
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mold
when a structure is buried in sediment and then dissolved by underground water
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replacement
cell walls are removed and replaced with mineral matter
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casts
when hollow spaces are filled with mineral matter
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carbonization
when fine sediment encases the remains of an organism and leaves a residue of carbon
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impression
a replica of the surface
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principle of fossil succession
fossil organism succeed one another in a definite and determinable order, and any time period can be recognized by its fossil content
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index fossils
widespread geographically and are limited to a short span of geologic time
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fossil assemblages
groups of fossils that determine the age of a bed
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fossil types
- petrification - tracks/trails - imprints/casts/molds - amber