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Amphibolite is a foliated metamorphic rock. The orientation of the foliation is 251/75. It has a gneiss foliation and stripes of minerals segregation. Minerals such as white Quartz, shinny Plagioclase, green Amphibole, and pistachio green (yellowish) epidote were seen on the fresh surface. Greenschist is coarse grained metamorphic rock that contains minerals such as yellow epidote, flakes of mica and green serpentine and chlorite. Metasediments with various colors were seen such as Quartzite…

All volcanoes are magnificent features of Earth’s crust. One type of volcano is a cinder cone. “A cinder cone volcano doesn’t have any horizontal layers of solid lava flows mixed with layers of other rock,”stated on zmescience.com. Cinder cone volcanoes are sloped like a mountain, although they have a large number of very liquid lava flows. When people think of a volcano most of most of the time they think of a cinder cone volcano because of it’s tall and sloped cone shaped. “One kind of…

Southern Europe includes countries of the Iberian peninsula (Spain and Portugal), the Italian peninsula, southern France, and Greece. Also, includes the Balkan countries of Southeast Europe. It is a mountainous area and a Mediterranean Vegetation region that has mild climate. Alpine Orogeny is a phase formed fifty million years ago when the Eurasian continent plate and African continent plate collide together. The Alpine Orogeny produced intense metamorphism of rocks, crumpling of rock strata,…

Geo-Process’s Results Billions of years ago, the earth was not made up of seven continents, as it is today. It was one big landmass called Pangea. Meaning all land. Pangea went under a process called continental drift, founder by Alfred Wegener, which is caused by geo-process. Geo-process results in changes to the earth's surface because of tectonic plates causing mountain building, earthquakes, and volcanos. First off, convergent plates cause many different types of mountains, like the…

Earthquakes and volcanoes go hand in hand like peanut butter and jelly or rice and beans. Where there are volcanos there are usually tectonic plates beneath them either pushing against or pulling away from one another. Take for instance the Cascade Mountain Range in Northern California and stretches through Oregon and into Vancouver, British Columbia and sits northeast of the San Andreas Fault line that runs 750 miles through California. This fault creates the tectonic boundary between the…

Mount Tahoma is the highest mountain of the Cascade Range of the Pacific Northwest, and the highest mountain in the state of Washington. It is a large active stratovolcano located 54 miles (87 km) south-southeast of Seattle .It is the most topographically prominent mountain in the contiguous United States and the Cascade Volcanic Arc, with a summit elevation of 14,411 ft. The most recent recorded volcanic eruption was between 1820 and 1854, but many eyewitnesses reported eruptive activity in…

You may hear the word volcano and think scorching hot lava, but there is more to these heated mountains than you think. Volcanos can be quit dangerous but we do benefit from them. Volcanos do not only affect us, they infect our environment in ways most people may not know. To start off, the population of volcanos has grown tremendously. In the 1900’s, “roughly 60 (volcanos) erupted each year” as stated in the first paragraph of the article “How Many Active Volcanoes Are There”. Now, it is know…

Volcanoes are deep vents in the earth that allow magma, volcanic gases, volcanic ash, and other volcanic material to come to the surface of the earth from magma chambers during eruption. Volcanoes exist because the earth’s crust is split into seventeen major tectonic plates, and they occur when two tectonic plates converge, and magma rises. The hole in the earth, also known as a vent, goes down into a central vent which is beneath the summit crater. At a deep depth, but is widely unknown, a…

Volcanoes have been around for centuries but, some are active, some are not. Some volcanoes erupt frequently, while others do not. “At least 20 volcanoes will probably be erupting as you read these words” (Siebert 58). We have all heard of volcanoes before but do you really know about them? A preferred title for “active volcanoes” is a “Holocene volcano” or “historically active.” There are even Holocene volcanoes on the sea floor, and some Holocene volcanoes go way back such as Italy’s…

On August 5, 2010 a ramp into the San Jose mine in Chile’s Atacama Desert collapsed, leaving 33 miners trapped more than 2,000 feet underground. The men were working inside a mountain, excavating for gold and other minerals when they started feeling vibrations. There was a huge explosion and after the dust settled, miners discovered that a block of stone had broken off from the rest of the mountain and fell through the layers of the mine, causing a chain reaction as the mountain above it began…