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