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1. Some minerals have distinctive properties - such as calcite which reacts with dilute hydrochloric acid to produce carbon dioxide. Dolomite also reacts with acid - graphite can make clear markings - magnetite attracts a magnet - halite tastes salty -
Dolostone
Saprolite
Glass
Special properties of minerals
2. Distinguishing feature of magma; the process where different magmas formed in different locations from different sources may come in contact within a magma chamber prior to freezing. Thus the originally distinct magmas mix to create a new - different
Tuff
Soil Horizons
Magma mixing
Asthenosphere
3. Fracture type; smoothly curving - clamshell-shaped surfaces; typically formed in quartz.
Conchoidal fractures
Hot-spot track
Sandstone
Peridotite
4. A reaction during which an element loses electrons - commonly takes place when elements combine with oxygen.
Columnar jointing
Crust
Oxidation
Native metals
5. A mafic rock with small grains. Extrusive - aphanitic igneous rock.
Basalt
Dunes
Decompression
Laccolith
6. Consists of rock and sediment that has been modified by physical and chemical interaction with organic material and rainwater - over time - to produce a substrate that can support the growth of plants.
Xenolith
Alloy
Soil
Mafic
7. Mineral crystal formation type; form from a solidification of a melt - meaning the freezing of a liquid.
Silicates
Facets
Melting
Inner core
8. Sedimentary rocks consisting of carbon-rich relicts of plants.
Volcanic blocks/bombs
a'a'
Organic sedimentary rocks
Rock layering
9. 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.
Basalt
The effect of the environment on eruptive style
Explosive eruptions
Ripples
10. A felsic rock with large grains. Intrusive - phaneritic igneous rock.
Granite
Marine magnetic anomaly
Magnetic declination
Gem
11. 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.
Transition zone
Alloy
Bed
Dark Silicates
12. Type of volcano; broad and slightly domed - primarily made of basaltic lava - large and erupt large volumes of lava. Form from either low viscosity basaltic lava or from large pyroclastic sheets.
Hot spots
Salt wedging
Dark Silicates
Shield volcano
13. Physical property of a mineral; results from the way a mineral interacts with light. A mineral absorbs certain wavelengths - so the color seen represents the color wavelengths the mineral did not absorb.
Color
Regression
Symmetry
Luster
14. A nearly horizontal - tabletop-shaped tabular intrusion - parallel to layering within the earth.
Transform fault
E-horizon
Cinder cone
Sill
15. The removal of soil by running water or by wind.
Diagenesis
Soil erosion
Metamorphic foliation
Decompression
16. Type of volcanic eruption; produce mainly lava flows - yield low-viscosity basaltic lavas.
Granitic composition
Metals
Frost wedging
Effusive eruptions
17. A column of very hot rock that flows upward until it reaches the base of the lithosphere. In this model - such deep-mantle plumes form because heat rising from the Earth's core is warming rock at the base of the mantle. A possible explanation to the
Specific gravity
Magma
Regression
Mantle plume
18. Volcanoes that exist as isolated points and appear to be independent of movement at a plate boundary - hot-spot volcanoes. Mostly are located on the interior of plates - away from boundaries.
Xenolith
Symmetry
Hot spots
Deep-ocean trenches
19. Rigid outer layer of Earth - 100-150km thick. Consists of the crust plus the uppermost part of the mantle.
Light silicates
Physical weathering
Lithosphere
Redbeds
20. A single - continuous (uninterrupted) piece of a crystalline solid bounded by flat surfaces called crystal faces that grew naturally as the mineral formed. Come in a variety of shapes - cubes - trapezoids - pyramids - octahedrons - hexagonal columns
Dipole
Xenolith
Crystal
Organic chemicals
21. Subsoil - ions and clay leached and transported down from above accumulate here. As a result - new minerals form - and clay fills open spaces. Part of the zone of accumulation.
Transgression
B-horizon
Alloy
Streak
22. A reference to the supposed position of the Earth's magnetic pole at a time in the past.
Biochemical sedimentary rocks
Mantle
Paleopole
650-1100 degrees C
23. Relatively small - elongated ridges that form on a bed surface at right angles to the direction of the current flow of the rock.
Sandstone
B-horizon
Ripples
A-horizon
24. Sedimentary rock composed of quartz.
Siliceous rocks
Organic chemicals
Carbonate rocks
Transgression
25. Type of sedimentary rock; rocks whose grains are stuck together by cement.
Clastic
Redbeds
Arkose
Glass
26. A place where three plate boundaries intersect at a point.
Glassy igneous rocks
Volatiles
triple junction
Phreatomagmatic eruptions
27. Refers to the processes that break up and corrode solid rock - eventually transforming it into sediment. Physical and chemical variations.
Five steps of clastic sedimentary rock formation
Plate tectonics
Weathering
Transition zone
28. The difference between the expected strength of the Earth's main field at a certain location and the actual measure strength of the magnetic field at that location. Places where the field strength is stronger that expected are positive anomalies - an
Source rock composition
Glass
Geothermal gradient
Magnetic anomaly
29. The broad - relatively flat regions of the ocean that lie at a depth of about 4-5km below sea level.
Dike
Sedimentary Basins
Clastic sedimentary rocks
Abyssal plains
30. Times when the Earth's magnetic field flips from normal to reversed polarity - or vice versa. When the Earth has reversed polarity - the south magnetic pole lies near the north geographic pole - and the north magnetic pole lies near the south geograp
Mineral
Andesitic lava flows
Magnetic reversals
Five steps of clastic sedimentary rock formation
31. Develops because mid-ocean ridges lie at a higher elevation than the adjacent abyssal plains of the ocean. The surface of the sea floor overall slopes away from the ridge axis. Gravity causes the elevated lithosphere at the ridge axis to push on the
Assimilation
Residual soil
Ridge-push force
Convective flow
32. 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.
Convective flow
Glass
Ignimbrite
Hydrosphere
33. A plate boundary at which two plates move toward one another so that one plate sinks beneath the other. Subduction zones; Engage the sinking process known as subduction - between plates - consuming old oceanic lithosphere due to high density. Can sim
Outcrop
Zone of accumulation
Convergent plate boundary
Effusive eruptions
34. Alfred Wegener's suggestion that the positions of the continents change through time as they drift away from each other. The flaw was that he lacked a plausible moving mechanism.
Precipitation
Silicate minerals
Plate tectonics
Continental drift hypothesis
35. The rate of increase in temperature - decreases with increasing depth. The dashed lines represent the solidus and liquidus for mantle rock (peridotite). The solidus line defines the conditions of pressure and temperature at Which mantle rock begins t
Geothermal gradient
Columnar jointing
Reason for Earth's internal heat
Effusive eruptions
36. Cause of melting; when magma rises up from the mantle into the crust - it brings heat with it which raises the temperature of the surrounding crustal rock - and in some cases melting occurs.
Siltstone and mudstone
Sedimentary structure
Heat transfer
Convergent plate boundary
37. Process where new divergent boundaries form when a continent splits and separates into two continents.
Light silicates
ravertine
Composite cone (stratovolcano)
rifting
38. Clast size - clast composition - angularity and sphericity - sorting - and character of cement.
Sulfates
3.5km (2 miles)
triple junction
Factors classifying clastic sedimentary rocks
39. Sea-floor spreading proponents - Hess and others realized that in order for the circumference of the Earth to remain constant through time - ocean floor must eventually sink back into the mantle. This sinking process consumes the ocean floor between
Sedimentary Basins
Crystalline igneous rocks
Subduction
Zone of leaching
40. A process occurring when the sea level rises - the coast migrates inland. Through this - an extensive layer of beach forms.
Soil
Transgression
Plutons
Crystalline igneous rocks
41. Layering in sedimentary rocks.
Plate tectonics
Bedding
Ultramafic
Convergent plate boundary
42. Deeper sublayer of the mantle - depth of 660km to 2900km.
Quartz sandstone
Pangaea
Lower mantle
Limestone
43. Type of soil; forms in tropical regions where abundant rainfall drenches the land during the rainy season - and the soil dries during the dry season.
Organic chemicals
Apparent polar-wander path
Hardness
Laterite
44. The base of the soil profile; consists of material derived from the substrate that's been chemically weathered and broken apart - but has not yet undergone leaching or accumulation.
Intrusive igneous rock
Geothermal gradient
C-horizon
rifting
45. During this process - water chemically reacts with minerals and breaks them down - working faster in slightly acidic water.
Hydrolysis
Slab-pull force
Silicates
Silicate minerals
46. Distinguishing feature of magma; Because not all minerals melt by the same amount under given conditions - and because chemical reactions take place during melting - the magma that forms as a rock begins to melt does not have the same composition as
Crystal structure
Partial melting
Earth's atmosphere
Mafic
47. After sand has lost its feldspar composition due to weathering over time - sediment composed entirely of quartz grains gets buried and lithified to form this type of rock.
Quartz sandstone
Fracture zones
Agrillaceous rocks
Source rock composition
48. Type of volcano; built from ejected lava fragments - cone shaped piles of tephra - steep slope angle - smaller in size - frequently occur in groups - deep craters.
Cinder cone
Compaction
Inner core
Peridotite
49. Most common mineral on Earth; compose over 95% of the continental crust. Consist of combinations of a fundamental building block called silicon-oxygen tetrahedron - different groups: independent tetrahedra - single chains - double chains - sheet sili
Silicate minerals
O-horizon
Lithosphere
Clastic sedimentary rocks
50. Type of igneous rock composition; composed of dark silicates and calcium-rich feldspar - referred to as mafic (magnesium and iron). Make up the ocean floor/volcanic islands.
650-1100 degrees C
Basaltic composition
Sandstone
Slab-pull force
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