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GENERAL GEOLOGY (GEOSPHERE)
Outermost layer of the geosphere ...,
Describe the crust,
What separates crust from the und...
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GENERAL GEOLOGY (THEORIES)
Plutonism,
Neptunism,
Catastrophism
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GENERAL GEOLOGY (OROGENY)
Young mountain belts,
North american cordillera,
Andes
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GENERAL GEOLOGY (OROGENY & MOUNTAIN BELTS)
Young mountain belts in the world,
What is the meaning of cordillera,
Age of himalayas
51
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GENERAL GEOLOGY (EQUAKE)
Catastrophic magnitude 70 mw eart...,
Epicenter of such earthquake,
Depth
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GENERAL GEOLOGY (GLOBAL TECTONICS)
What is the basic tenet of plate ...,
What marks the ends of plate boun...,
What are the minor plates
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GENERAL GEOLOGY (CRUSTAL DEFORMATION)
A general term that refers to the...,
The forces that deform rocks,
Stress applied uniformly in all d...
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GENERAL GEOLOGY (PLANETARY GEOLOGY)
7 study of the chemistry of the u...,
8 theoretical age of the universe,
9 who proposed big bang theory
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GENERAL GEOLOGY (EARTH VALUES)
Astronomical unit au,
Circumference of earth,
Ave distance of moon to earth
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GEOMORPHOLOGY (STRUCTURAL)
What are structural landforms,
Plutons with dome shaped geometry,
Pluton with subhorizontal shape
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GEOMORPHOLOGY (EOLIAN)
Desert,
Extremely arid,
Arid
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STRATIGRAPHY AND SEDIMENTATION (RUNNING WATER AND GROUNDWATER)
The unending cycle of water on earth,
How much is the water content of ...,
Ocean component
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STRATIGRAPHY AND SEDIMENTATION (GROUNDWATER)
Most important and widely availab...,
This is the form of the largest v...,
This represents the largest reser...
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STRATIGRAPHY AND SEDIMENTATION (GLACIER)
How much of earth s and surface i...,
Thick ice mass formed over hundre...,
Processes in glacier formation
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STRATIGRAPHY AND SEDIMENTATION (LACUSTRINE)
What controls the level of water ...,
Five mechanisms of lake formation,
The most common deposits in lakes
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STRATIGRAPHY AND SEDIMENTATION (DELTA)
Discrete shoreline protuberance e...,
A river mouth where there is a mi...,
Generally what kind of deposits i...
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STRATIGRAPHY AND SEDIMENTATION (DESERT)
Definition of dry based on precip...,
Dryness,
Dry climate
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STRATIGRAPHY AND SEDIMENTATION (MARINE AND TIDES)
The shape and depth of the sea oc...,
Ave depth of spreading ridges,
Ave depth to ocean floor
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STRATIGRAPHY AND SEDIMENTATION (SHALLOW MARINE)
Weak grains of sediments composed...,
An authigenic material considered...,
Greensands are shallow marine dep...
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STRATIGRAPHY AND SEDIMENTATION (DEEP MARINE)
Largest area of sediment accumula...,
How much of the area of the globe...,
Deeply incised steep sided erosio...
57
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STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY HATCHER 1
Strutcures that are not present o...,
Structures that are present at al...,
What is structural geol
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STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY HATCHER 2
1st order reference surface,
Types of crossbeds,
Flute casts are common at the bot...
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STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY HATCHER 4
The displacement field for tecton...,
Change in shape,
Chane in orientation
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STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY HATCHER 5
Freatures that can aid in measuri...,
Total strain of the rock is the r...,
This relates instantaneous shape ...
25
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STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY HATCHER 6
Three end members of deformatio,
Objects with materia memory,
Permanent strain that occurs with...
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STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY HATCHER 7
Imperfectios in crystal lattice,
Involves a foreign ion or atom in...,
Defects when an unoccupied site i...
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STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY HATCHER 9
Plane of dispplacement or the act...,
Rock mass resting on the fault plane,
Rock mass beneath the fault plane
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STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY HATCHER 10
Rupture does not occur on the pla...,
Maximum stress bisecting the acut...,
Max and inter principal stresses ...
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STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY HATCHER 11
Belt of thrust faults occuring be...,
Zones of weak rocks shale coal or...,
A high angle segment which may ex...
27
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STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY HATCHER 12
The great alaskan 1964 and chilea...,
Kansu and tangshan china earthqua...,
Example of great strike slip faults
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STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY HATCHER 13
Primary motive force in normal fa...,
Involves simultaneous deposition ...,
Splays of normal fault that dip i...
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STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY HATCHER 14
Wave like structures resulting fr...,
In which part of the stress regim...,
Deposits found in the hinges of a...
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STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY HATCHER 15
Describes the spatial and geometr...,
Structures that pervade the rock ...,
A penetrative fabric which consis...
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STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY HATCHER 16
Any structure that can constitute...,
A topographic feature consisting ...,
Lineations that are confined to i...
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