LE 3 Flashcards
Ductile Deformation
folds
Brittle Deformation
- Dip-slip – normal or reverse/thrust
- Strike slip – sinistral or dextral
- Oblique slip
SEISMIC WAVES
- When energy is released during earthquakes, it is propagated as seismic waves
1. * – interior; emanate from the focus in all directions
1. 1. * – first to arrive (solid and liquid); push and pull motion
1. 2. * – second to arrive (solid only); transverse wave
2. * – surface; most destructive; directly affects us during earthquakes
2. 1. * – cyclical side to side
2. 2. * – cyclical up and down
Body waves P-waves S-waves Surface waves Love waves Rayleigh waves
Magnitude – it is the * by an earthquake at the focus. Recorded by a seismograph; uses Richter scale
Intensity – * of the earthquake perceived and felt by people in a certain locality; uses Mercalli scale
energy released
strength
- Downslope movement of rock, regolith (unconsolidated material) and soil under the influence of gravity
MASS WASTING
sudden movement of a rock, separated along fractures or bedding planes. No fluidity in the motion
- Fall
blocks of material fall over as a unit, similar to falling dominos
- Topple
results when rocks and debris slide down
- Slides
downward rotation of slide, arcuate
- Slumps (rotational slides
6.3. Creep
solifluction
slow movement of soil
creep + moisture
Cap rock –
mudstones
- – store groundwater efficiently
- Confined – has confining layer
- Unconfined – has no confining layer
- Perched – isolated water table above main water table
- – retardation of transport
- – include
- *
Aquifiers
Aquitard
Aquiclude
Aquifuge
- Deals with the origin of the Earth and its development through time
- Strives to establish an orderly chronological arrangement of physical and chemical changes
HISTORICAL GEOLOGY
evidence of life in the form of tracks or burrows
3.2. Ichnofossils
– dissolution of shell (mold) and refilling (cast)
3.1. Mold and Cast
- Steno’s Law
- – in the sequence of undeformed rock strata, the oldest layer will lie below or underneath the youngest
- – layer of sediments would have in the bottom of a lake, or the ocean, are deposited by gravity into flat, horizontal or sub-horizontal layers
- – if a rock layer is cut by a fault or igneous intrusion, the rock that is cut must be older than the layer that cuts it
Law of Superposition
Law of Original Horizontality
Law of Lateral Continuity
- Inclusions
- The included material is older than the body that hosts it
- Breaks in the deposition of the rock indication geologically long periods of non-deposition or erosion
3. 1. Disconformity
3. 2. Paraconformity
3. 3. Angular unconformity
3. 4. Nonconformity
- Unconformities
non- met or ign
dis - ero
para - dep
Causes of climate change
plate tectonics - landmass distribution; low latitude hotter
landmass distribution - gitna yung land - cooler
volcanism and CO2 - degassing
Milankovitch cycles - ellipticity of orbit, precession
Human activity