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1. A plate boundary at which two plates move apart from one another by process of sea-floor spreading. Mid-ocean ridges or simply a ridge. New crust is formed at ridges through the buoyant rising of magma from beneath the surface and solidifies to creat
Divergent plate boundary
Continental drift hypothesis
Arkose
Frost wedging
2. Four settings: in volcanic arcs bordering deep-ocean trenches - isolated hot spots - within continental rifts - and along mid-ocean ridges.
Oxidation
Carbonates
Area of igneous activity
Agrillaceous rocks
3. Chemical precipitates; salt deposits formed as a consequence of evaporation. Examples - rock salt and gypsum.
Cinder cone
Evaporites
Ash
Turbidite
4. In degrees Celsius - the high temperatures at which igneous rocks freeze; the freezing of liquid melt to form solid igneous rock represents the same phenomenon as the freezing of water - except at much higher temperatures.
650-1100 degrees C
Organic chemicals
Fragmental igneous rocks
Batholiths
5. Mineral crystal formation type; from directly from a vapor - occurs around volcanic vents or around geysers. At such locations - volcanic gases or steam enter the atmosphere and cool - so certain elements cannot remain in gaseous form.
Crystalline igneous rocks
Fumerolic mineralization
Quartz sandstone
Compaction
6. Distinguishing feature of magma; the process where magma changes composition as it cools because formation and sinking of crystals preferentially remove certain atoms from the magma.
Convergent plate boundary
Hot-spot track
Cement
Fractional crystallization
7. Active hot-spot volcanoes commonly occur at the end of a chain of dead volcanoes.
Paleopole
Flood basalts
Andesitic lava flows
Hot-spot track
8. Two different minerals which have the same composition but have different crystal structures.
Sedimentary structure
Spreading rate
Soil
Polymorphs
9. Type of magma; low in silica - fluid - crystallize at high temperatures.
The core
Asthenosphere
Basaltic magma
Color
10. Sedimentary rocks consisting of carbon-rich relicts of plants.
Transform fault
Hydrosphere
Crystal lattice
Organic sedimentary rocks
11. Carbon-containing compounds that either occur in living organisms - or have characteristics that resemble the molecules within living organisms. Examples - oil - protein - plastic - fat - and rubber.
Sulfates
triple junction
Hardness
Organic chemicals
12. The absorption of water into the crystal structure of minerals - causes some minerals to expand.
Cementation
Hydration
Basalt
Mafic
13. Physical property of a mineral; a measure of a minerals relative ability to resist scratching - and therefore represents the resistance of bonds in the crystal structure being broken. The atoms or ions in crystals of a hard mineral are more strongly
Phreatomagmatic eruptions
Hardness
Granitic composition
Fragmental igneous rocks
14. Because different soil-forming processes operate at different depths - soils typically develop into these distinct zones. These zones can be arranged vertically into a soil profile.
Mafic
Soil Horizons
Factors of magma cooling time
Bedrock
15. Equant - meaning that they have the same dimensions in all directions. Or inequant - meaning their dimensions are not the same in all directions.
Laterite
Sea-floor spreading
Grain sizes
Ignimbrite
16. Type of lava flow; surface layer of the lava freezes and then breaks up due to the continued movement of lava underneath - becomes a jumble of sharp - angular fragments - yielding a rubbly flow.
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17. Magma type; contains about 45% to 52% silica. Named because it produces rock containing abundant mafic minerals - magnesium and iron combinations.
Granitic composition
Dark Silicates
Gabbro
Mafic
18. Places with particularly voluminous quantities of magma erupting or intruding.
Magnetic reversals
Divergent plate boundary
Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs)
Rock texture
19. A mixture containing more than one type of metal atom. Example - bronze is a mixture of copper and tin.
Organic sedimentary rocks
Residual soil
Alloy
Calderas
20. Measure of pressure or push in units of force - per unit area. 1 atm = 1.04 kilograms per square centimeter.
Dissolution
atmospheres (atm)
Crystalline igneous rocks
Carbonates
21. The bottom portion of the upper mantle - the interval lying between 400km and 660km deep. Here within the Earth - the character of the mantle undergoes a series of abrupt changes.
Silicate minerals
Stratagraphic formation
Melting
Transition zone
22. Volcanic landform; pipes are short conduits that connect a magma chamber to the surface.
Cross beds
Regolith
Volcanic pipes/necks
Metamorphic foliation
23. A mafic rock with small grains. Extrusive - aphanitic igneous rock.
Basalt
Mantle plume
Conchoidal fractures
Physical weathering
24. Core division; from a depth of 5155km down to Earth's center at 6371km. A radius of about 1220km - is solid iron-nickel alloy - can reach temperature of 4700 degrees C. Solid in nature because of subjection to greater pressure - keeps atoms from wand
Stratagraphic formation
Zone of accumulation
Silicate minerals
Inner core
25. Rigid outer layer of Earth - 100-150km thick. Consists of the crust plus the uppermost part of the mantle.
Lithosphere
Rock composition
Fracture zones
Fumerolic mineralization
26. Physical property of a mineral; refers to the way a mineral surface scatters light. Metallic versus non-metallic in nature.
Transform plate boundary
Thermal expansion
Tephra
Luster
27. Type of volcanic eruption; pyroclastic - produce clouds and avalanches of pyroclastic debris. Gas expands in the rising magma - cannot escape. The pressure becomes so great that it blasts the lava - and volcanic rock - out of the volcano.
Marine magnetic anomaly
Viscosity
Explosive eruptions
Metamorphic rocks
28. Outer surface level of Earth; composed of granite - basalt - and gabbro. Continental: mostly about 35-40km thick . Oceanic: about 7-10km thick. Oxygen - by far the most abundant element.
Crust
Outer core
Mineral
Abyssal plains
29. A solid in which atoms are not arranged in an orderly pattern. Forms when a liquid freezes so fast that atoms do not have time to organize into an orderly pattern.
Depositional environment
Glass
Pangaea
Euhedral crystal
30. A distinctive sequence of strata traced across a fairly large region. For example - a region may contain a succession of alternating sandstone and shale beds deposited by rivers - overlain by beds of marine limestone deposited later.
Basaltic composition
Stratagraphic formation
Metals
Carbonate rocks
31. A name for any kind of unconsolidated debris that covers bedrock. Includes both soil and accumulations of sediment that have not evolved into soil.
Calderas
Regolith
Turbidity current
Slab-pull force
32. Core division; between 2900 and 5155km deep. Liquid iron alloy - it exists as a liquid because the temperature here is so high that even the great pressures squeezing the region cannot lock atoms into a solid framework. This liquid iron alloy is able
Lava
Transported soil
Outer core
Crystalline igneous rocks
33. The Earth radiated heat into space and slowly cooled. Eventually - the early formed sea of lava solidified and formed igneous rock. The cumulative effect of radioactivity has been sufficient to slow the cooling of the planet and subsequently allow fo
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34. Layering in metamorphic rocks.
Zone of leaching
Metamorphic foliation
650-1100 degrees C
Silicate minerals
35. An exposure of bedrock.
Outcrop
Crystal
Clastic sedimentary rocks
Subsidence
36. A proposition in 1960 - by Princeton University professor Harry Hess - that continents drift apart because new ocean floor forms between them by this process.
Special properties of minerals
Sea-floor spreading
Metamorphic rocks
Why magma rises
37. Magma type; contains about 52% to 66% silica. Name indicates that these magmas have a composition between that of felsic and mafic magma.
Thermal expansion
Hydrolysis
Intermediate
Lava
38. Fluid basaltic lava extruded from crustal fractures called fissures.
Fissure eruptions/lava plateaus
Depositional environment
Felsic
Why magma rises
39. A reaction during which an element loses electrons - commonly takes place when elements combine with oxygen.
Oxidation
Dissolution
Ash
Intermediate
40. Forms when clots of lava fly into the air in lava fountains and then freeze to form solid chunks before hitting the ground. Some forms when the explosion of a volcano shatters preexisting rock and ejects the fragments over the countryside.
Pyroclastic debris
Area of igneous activity
Plate tectonics
Root wedging
41. A pluton formation theory; a process during Which magma assimilates wall rock - and blocks of wall rock break off and sink into the magma.
Seamount chains
Why magma rises
Stoping
Subsidence
42. A sediment-filled depression; in an area where the lithosphere has subsided.
Hydrosphere
Pyroclastic debris
Sedimentary Basins
Lava tube
43. Rock formations still attached to the Earth's crust.
Zone of accumulation
Bedrock
Spreading rate
Silicate minerals
44. Layer that lies below the lithosphere - and is the portion of the mantle in which rock can flow (slowly; 10-15cm per year) despite still being solid. Entirely within the mantle and lies below a depth of 100-150km.
Sea-floor spreading
Silicate minerals
Chemical weathering
Asthenosphere
45. Process occurring after sediment has been compacted - can then be bounded together to make coherent sedimentary rock. Binding material consists of minerals (commonly quartz or calcite).
Soil
Lava domes
Cementation
collision
46. The fit of the continents - locations of past glaciations - the distribution of equatorial climatic belts - the distribution of fossils - and matching geologic units.
Source rock composition
Calderas
Felsic
Continental drift evidence
47. An intrusion starting to inject between layers but then dome upwards - creating this blister-shaped intrusion.
Laccolith
Cross beds
Color
Reason for Earth's internal heat
48. The most important mineral group; comprise the most rock-forming minerals - they are very abundant due to large % of silicon and oxygen in Earth's crust. Examples - oxygen - silica - aluminum.
Basalt
Ignimbrite
Agrillaceous rocks
Rock-forming silicate minerals
49. Type of sedimentary rock; rocks whose grains are stuck together by cement.
Rock composition
Hardness
Regolith
Clastic
50. A rock made of solid mass of glass - or of tiny crystals surrounded by glass. Reflect light as glass does and tend to break conchoidally. Examples - obsidian - tachylite - pumice.
Heat transfer
Continental shelf
Glassy igneous rocks
Specific gravity
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