Bombshell Rocks

fault; the St. Nicolas fault which brought the Manhattan schist. There were observations of boudins of quartz, which are kinetic indicators of movement and stress on the rocks (Flores, 2016). In the Manhattan schist basaltic intrusions were also observed and contact of the intrusion zone. The pegmatites, which are igneous rocks, observed pointed to the Acadian orogeny which followed the…

Earth is composed of many different components such as minerals, and rocks. These components have several different properties and characteristics which are unique to each. In this paper, I will discuss some of the different properties, characteristics, and uses of three different factors, those being gypsum, coal, and nickel. Gypsum Gypsum is derived from the Greek word gypsos which means plaster (Gypsum Meanings, Powers, and History). Gypsum is composed of oxygen, calcium, sulfur, and water…

sandstone and shale. Then an intrusive magma that made its way through the crust, only to cool and become granite and pegmatites. This magma changed the existing rocks making schists and quartzite. After the inland sea receded erosion dominated the area eroding many layers of rock that had been deposited. A massive uplift rose these rocks to 15,000 feet. The erosion process eventually got rid of the sedimentary layers, exposing the granites and metamorphic knobs that we see today. Imagine if one…

Initially, the most striking feature of Eroded Rock, Point Lobos, a gelatin silver print by Edward Weston, is its relationship between positive and negative space. The photo’s subject is an eroded rock, whose rough, raised plateaus create a light positive space and emerge from smooth, blackened sections of the eroded rock which create the image’s negative space. These sections of eroded rock envelop the plateaus in languid serpentine lines, almost as though the plateaus are land masses cast…

During the Scottish Enlightenment, a period of increased intellectual activity in the 18th and early 19th century, individuals tended to explore multiple disciplines of study (Young, 2016). One prominent Scottish Enlightenment figure was James Hutton, living from 1726 to 1797. During his lifetime he was a lawyer, geologist, chemist, physician, farmer, and naturalist. Hutton, along with other prominent Enlightenment figures, Joseph Black and Adam Smith, founded the Oyster Club. This intellectual…

Adair Park Field Trip was a really great experience where you get to see many different types of rocks and many diverse examples of minerals. This trip happened on Saturday November 1, 2014. Several geology classes went to the field trip for the expedition, with the purpose of learning the different types of each rock and its minerals and also to identify the stones from oldest to youngest. The group leaders of this trip were several professors of geology. Professor Croxen, Garrett, Dr. B, did…

derived from Jurassic to lower cretaceous periods in the north part of Lake Malawi which has hydrocarbon reservoir prospects. Existence of thick sedimentary sequence rock could possibly trap hydrocarbon especially in lower Shire valley, northern of Lake Malawi. Presence of large proportion volcanic clasts interbedded with sedimentary rocks transported by rivers present for extensive alluvial plain building enhances prospects(Crossley, 1984). The system also swept mud flows generated during…

Golden is tilted and there were mining done here. Let’s start our journey at Red Rocks Park, the Precambrian Basement, around 1.7 billion years ago, when North America is forming along with the formation of the giant continent Columbia. This is proven by the deep marine limestone and the rock is deposited in the subduction…

city of Rock and the wall of Water. The main city that is surrounded by three walls and there is a wall that separates the city of stone and the city of Rock. The city of Rock has no walls within it. There is a wall, the third wall that can be found further than the location of the wall that separates the main city and the city of Rock, it marks the end of city. At the end of the city is the Wall of Water, which just marks the end of the city. Outside the main city walls is the City of Rock.…

frustration and anger felt by a generation of punk rockers, allowing them to deal with subjects that mattered . Equally important was the contribution to punk that The Sex Pistols brought through their rhetoric of ‘Anarchy’, ‘pop’ and ‘violence’ against ‘rock’, ‘authority’ and ‘middle class society’ to show the politic, economic, social and cultural crisis that was consuming Britain . Writing a song entitled ‘Anarchy in the UK’ was a statement made about independence and a do-it-yourself…