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15 Cards in this Set
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What are the two main types of processes that affect earth materials |
Surface and tectonic |
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What are the different kinds of volcanoes |
Strato, Shield |
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Strato or composite volcanoes |
Typically steep-sided symmetrical cones of large dimensional build of altering layers of lava flows volcanic ash, cinders, blocks, and bombs that may rise as much as eight thousand feet above their base. |
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Shield volcanoes |
Built almost entirely of fluid lava flows. Low after flow pours out in all directions from a central Summit vent, or group events, building a broad, gently sloping cone of flat, tow missile shape, with a profile much like that of a warrior Shield. |
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2 different types of dinosaurs |
Sauroschian: lizard-hipped Ornithischian: bird-hipped |
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Hadean |
Everything is f***** |
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Archaen |
Separation of crust and formation of crust |
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Banded iron formation |
First atmospheric oxygen reacting with iron rich Rock |
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Proterozoic |
Soft life |
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Cambrian explosion |
Explosion of life, life had more hard parts, and random diversification of environments |
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Paleozoic |
Life diversification, living longer, harder Parts, more environments |
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Permo Triassic mass extinction |
75% of the land and 95% of sea organ isms died not sure of the cause. |
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Mesozoic |
Age of dinosaurs |
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Cretaceous-tertiary mass extinction |
Fifty percent of land and sea organisms died big meteor that landed in the Yucatan Peninsula |
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Cenozoic |
Mammals, takes us to present day |
