Geology
The Field of Geology didn’t become a major field until World war II, when the sea floor was mapped out in detail for submarines revealing a mid-Atlantic underwater mountain range, and a rift which started the theory of Plate Tectonics. Plate tectonics are used to explain the forming of mountains and even continents after the Pangaea. Plate tectonics explains that continents could have broken up, but there are 2 major theories on how.
Catastrophist’s believe that a series of catastrophes caused things like plates, and the splitting of a supercontinent-Pangaea to happen in thousands of years.
Uniformitarian’s believe after millions or billions of years, these things happened and often times used to try and explain evolution, although …show more content…
As the sediment that flows downstream is stopped by the dam, it piles up creating a lake. Most of the time this would just make a nice lake for photo’s but along with rainfall can cause flash flooding, destroying villages and towns, and causing financial damage. Irrigation from rivers can do the exact opposite as water from a lake moves into the irrigation built mostly for farming it would cause the water level to lower and sediments would dam the river, and cause flooding everywhere on the other side. Sinkholes can occur naturally by the loosening of a cavern by the water eating away the limestone. Sinkholes can also be caused be cave ins from mining, or a increase in water from irrigation or other sources can cause, or speed up the problem. Another less common occurrence is the building or mining of a mountain that is actually a volcano like Mount Saint Helens. The interaction can speed up eruptions, but occurs by itself anyways. More commonly bedrock can be chipped or weathered after being exposed by construction or after an landslide or mudslide. The erosion of rocks not being weathered can reduce the strength of the bedrock and cause structural problems among others. Besides these, the ecosystem is also often times tampered with and destroyed by human interaction. To stop prevent or help these things from occurring, scientists look closer than just an observation that there is a crack in the ground before a landslide or mudslide after a odd amount of rain, they look to the building blocks of rocks, minerals. Minerals are what make up all rocks, and there are many types of minerals like quartz which can be seen in most types of sandstone, which is a sedimentary rock. This and other minerals make up rocks, but the minerals themselves are made up of even smaller building blocks like atoms, forming a structure which defines how
The Field of Geology didn’t become a major field until World war II, when the sea floor was mapped out in detail for submarines revealing a mid-Atlantic underwater mountain range, and a rift which started the theory of Plate Tectonics. Plate tectonics are used to explain the forming of mountains and even continents after the Pangaea. Plate tectonics explains that continents could have broken up, but there are 2 major theories on how.
Catastrophist’s believe that a series of catastrophes caused things like plates, and the splitting of a supercontinent-Pangaea to happen in thousands of years.
Uniformitarian’s believe after millions or billions of years, these things happened and often times used to try and explain evolution, although …show more content…
As the sediment that flows downstream is stopped by the dam, it piles up creating a lake. Most of the time this would just make a nice lake for photo’s but along with rainfall can cause flash flooding, destroying villages and towns, and causing financial damage. Irrigation from rivers can do the exact opposite as water from a lake moves into the irrigation built mostly for farming it would cause the water level to lower and sediments would dam the river, and cause flooding everywhere on the other side. Sinkholes can occur naturally by the loosening of a cavern by the water eating away the limestone. Sinkholes can also be caused be cave ins from mining, or a increase in water from irrigation or other sources can cause, or speed up the problem. Another less common occurrence is the building or mining of a mountain that is actually a volcano like Mount Saint Helens. The interaction can speed up eruptions, but occurs by itself anyways. More commonly bedrock can be chipped or weathered after being exposed by construction or after an landslide or mudslide. The erosion of rocks not being weathered can reduce the strength of the bedrock and cause structural problems among others. Besides these, the ecosystem is also often times tampered with and destroyed by human interaction. To stop prevent or help these things from occurring, scientists look closer than just an observation that there is a crack in the ground before a landslide or mudslide after a odd amount of rain, they look to the building blocks of rocks, minerals. Minerals are what make up all rocks, and there are many types of minerals like quartz which can be seen in most types of sandstone, which is a sedimentary rock. This and other minerals make up rocks, but the minerals themselves are made up of even smaller building blocks like atoms, forming a structure which defines how