Ca Geology L #22 (Beginning Of Final)

Front 1

California is a small part of a much larger __ system

Back 1

global

Front 2

Transform faults can be ridge to ridge or ridge to ___. Subduction zones can eat up transform faults & divergent faults.

Back 2

subduction zone;

Front 3

Tectonic geometry is consistent among the planet.

Back 3

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Front 4

Water is “dragged” down with the slab and becomes a ___ to partially melt subsurface rocks. This actiontypically leads to high-__ magma that migrates upwards to fuel the volcanoes in the arc. The slab/trenchgeometries tend to mirror the overlying volcanic arc geometries. They are related. Often pyroclastic.

Back 4

catalyst;

silica;

Front 5

In convergent collision, You get massive ___ as the continents squeeze against each other. There is still subduction occuring though.

Back 5

mountain ranges;

Front 6

Do divergent boundaries appear onland?

Back 6

Yes.

Ex. East African Rift Valley– The Somali sub-plate is moving away from theNubian sub-plate (sub-plates to the larger Africanplate)

There are volcanoes and Flood basalts here.

Front 7

What is going on between Africaand Eurasia?

Back 7

Continental Collisions & a whole lot more as transform faults & spreading centers get caught up inthe system

Front 8

The whole Mediterranean has ___.

Back 8

subduction

Front 9

Where can we find an area whereconvergent, divergent, andtransform boundaries are in closeproximity?

Back 9

Middle East area;

African & Arabian plates are pushing into Eurasian Plate.

Front 10

Arabian Plate is ___ under the Eurasian plate which means it is going to be next to ___.

Back 10

subducting; Iran

Front 11

River Jordan and the Dead Sea are Locations of a major terrestrial ___ fault. The Dead Sea overlays a __ fault and the valley is part of a pull apart ___ caused by irregularities in the fault geometry. Dead sea is like Death Valley in structural form.

Back 11

Transform fault;

Transform fault;

basin;

Front 12

When you see a long straight valley think ___.

Back 12

fault

Front 13

What happens when two continental plates collide?

Back 13

Example is India“crashing” into theEurasian Plate formingthe Himalayas.

Front 14

This part of the world is mostly about CC and OC subduction and collisions.

Back 14

Eurasia