Flood geology

GOLDEN GEOLOGIC HISTORY REPORT It all started with the Big Bang then the whole universe is formed, continued with the formation of the Milky Way, where there is a solar system with the planet Earth and then there were this little town called Golden. This is a report that will travel through time telling the stories of the incidents happened in to this town of Golden. During our journey we must note that the whole geological of Golden is tilted and there were mining done here. Let’s start our…

1. Spiral Jetty was created by Robert Smithson in Great Salt Lake, Utah, 1970 from earthwork. 2. The Spiral Jetty is arranged into a spiral shape along the water of the Great Salt Lake. The emphasis of the earthwork draws the viewer into the center of the shape along the spiral, as this part is larger and more filled. The work is arranged in a unified pattern, especially as the textures and colors are all the same throughout the shape. The core of the spiral, as the largest part of the work, has…

The Mt. Isa Mine is a deposit of copper, lead and zinc. It is located at latitude 20∘44’S, longitude 139∘29’E and is in Queensland (Forrestal, 1990). Generally, this ore deposit contained 123 g/t copper, 5.0% lead and 7.0% zinc at 4.8 Mt. The host rock of this deposit consists of pyritic shale, carbonaceous shale, dolomitic siltstone, carbonate, granite, ironstone and metasedimentary cover rocks (Hutton et al. 2012). Deposit genesis The ore deposit genesis is considered to have occurred in…

TECTONIC HISTORY The Smackover Formation of Texas is located in the East Texas Basin, in North-East Texas, and is “one of three Mesozoic basins flanking the northern rim of the Gulf Coastal Plain” (Foote et al., 1988, p.3). “Subsidence from rifting and crustal attenuation in addition to subsequent sediment loading results in a maximum of 23,000 feet of subsidence in the center of the basin” ( an idea originally published in Seni and Jackson,1984, quoted from Foote et al., 1988, p.3). The area…

Alfred Lothar was a famous scientist and lived from 1880 to 1930. He was born in Berlin, Germany. He got a PhD in astronomy but soon wanted to study meteorology and paleoclimatology. He continued his work in Germany and Austria. He was most famous for his continental drift theory. Alfred Wegener stated his theory in 1912. His theory stated that all the continents were once all joined together but slowly drifted apart as time went on. He called it Pangaea. People did not believe him until the…

Mining is a business directly related to the extraction of ore, valuable minerals or other geological resources such as gold, silver, diamond, iron, coal and uranium from mines. Because the process of extraction requires a large amount of capital, mining business is normally done by the government, multinational companies or wealthy business owners. All the resources that need to be extracted are non-renewable as these materials cannot be artificially created nor grown through agricultural…

To begin there is one piece of crucial information that being;What is is a Fault line? A fault line is a crack in the Earth's crust in which pressure is created in the form of friction, once the rocks break under the pressure a jolt of energy released is and resulting earthquake occurs. Energy released from these geologic phenomenon are measured in a machine called a Richter Scale. The Richter Scale measures seismic waves through the ground after the initial shock in the epicenter of the…

Faults cover this entire earth. However, there is one in particular that is relevant to a region we are living close to today, and this is the Reelfoot fault. This fault starts at the bluffs of Reelfoot Lake in Tennessee. Then, it spreads south to the Mississippi River levee, north to the Kentucky Bend, and west to New Madrid, Missouri. This fault ultimately aligns the New Madrid Seismic zone, and it is a reverse fault. A reverse fault is when a hanging wall slides up a footwall. This is a…

cities. In order to construct superior systems more resilient to climate change and reduce contaminations and medical deficits, the U.S. needs to put close to sixty billion dollars into the infrastructure budget within the next 10 years. To start, floods, caused by excess precipitation, is causing thousands of deaths (La Ganga 2014). As the temperature continues to ascend, precipitation does as well. The…

significant effort in maintain the two lakes levels through the seasons, droughts and heavy rains decide a new dam is required. Initially the lake level was to be reduced a substantial 18 cm to 198.38 m above sea level. Also no sluice for a 100 year flood and no consideration for the habitat downstream. With objections from cottagers and a new proposal was made by the MNR. 2009-2010 The dam proposal is accepted and the dam modified by the fall of 2010 for the cost of $300,000. The original…