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22 Cards in this Set
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John Tuzo Wilson |
He proposed the integrative concept of plate tectonics. |
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Arthur Holmes |
He first proposed that the Earth was over 4 billion years old; father of Geochronology. |
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Reginald Daly |
He first proposed the concept of subduction. |
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Alfred Wegener |
His ideas about continental drift were rejected by scientists and the public, and died before his hypotheses were supported by others. |
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Harry H Hess |
He is credited with the concept of sea floor spreading. |
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Pierre and Marie Curie |
They worked to determine magnetism in minerals. |
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Samuel Goldich |
Developed the concept that specific minerals weather at their own rates based on the Earth's surface conditions. |
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James Hutton |
The father of modern geology |
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Chemical weathering causes rocks to become more spherical over time. Which of the following is NOT important when considering how much time it must take for rocks to weather? |
Climate Mineral Solubility Acidity in Rain Water Age of Rock MAGNETISM OF THE ROCK |
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What concepts have been used to support the concept of plate tectonics? |
Age of the seafloor Earth's mantle and core dynamics Fossil records Magnetic reversals Earth's magnetic field ALL OF THE ABOVE |
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What is the Law of Uniformitarianism? |
The present is the key to the past. |
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What element makes up a majority of the composition of igneous rocks on the sea floor? |
Iron (Fe) |
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When corals are exposed to stressful environmental conditions, such as high temperatures, they will expel they symbiote that normally lives in their tissue. What is this process called? |
Coral Bleaching |
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Mid-Ocean ridges form at what boundary? |
Divergent |
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What is the temperature point below which iron minerals remain magnetic, and above which they do not remain magnetic? |
Curie Temperature |
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Minerals are not? |
Inorganic SYNTHETIC solid Naturally occurring All of the above |
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Minerals can form |
By precipitation from water During Magma Cooling During mineral weathering ALL OF THE ABOVE |
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Bowens Reaction Series Explains what? |
Crystallization temperatures for minerals that form from cooling magma |
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Chemical Sedimentary rocks form from what? |
From dissolved ions in water that precipitate as minerals out of water. |
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Geology is the study of what? |
The earth |
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Why is natural rain water acidic? |
Gases dissolve into the water and form acids. |
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Name the steps of the hydrologic cycle? |
Condensation Evaporation Precipitation Run off |
