Magma

Valley first started forming Eighty to twenty-five million years ago. The causes that contributed to this great formation of this place in our own backyard, was uplift and erosion that stripped away most of the sedimentary layers, leaving the cooled magma exposed. Twenty-five million years ago, rolling hills and valleys covered the current Yosemite area, the Merced river flowed through a shallow valley. Ten million years the landscape was deeper and more wide opened causing the whole range…

Volcano By: Daniel Hamlin One day in Knox County, Missouri in 2081 Fred and Sally, two best friends, bought an office together so they could practice their scientific skills. Fred went to school to become a scientist. He passes and can have an office. Fred goes on a shopping spree to get all of the stuff he needs to have his office. He buys computers, furniture, a desk, pencils, paper, a refrigerator, etc… He hires people to move his…

Iceland is located in the North Atlantic sea, near the arctic circle. Iceland is 40,000 square miles large, which is approximately the size of Virginia and Kentucky combined. Only around 20 percent of the island is inhabited, and it is smallest country in Europe based on population (Geography). Some refer to the island as the land of fire and ice due to the presence of both glaciers and volcanoes (Gunnarsdóttir, Nanna, 2016). Volcanoes can even be found beneath glaciers. Glaciers cover more than…

The one ‘Charlie, Charlie” Pollie screamed “don't let them do this they can't kill two lives because of one person” Pollie screamed “I will try to make them save you and her” Charlie had said… wait did i got to far, sorry let's start from the beginning. It all started with a girl named Pholliegster (Poll-ie-est-er) Pollie was a young beautiful girl her father, a rich man in Utah named Billie Manhunt and her mother was a beautiful but young and poor Native American woman named Magna Vanilley…

The Mayan Pompeii Specific Purpose To inform my audience about the discovery of the well preserved Mayan village Caren in the volcanic ash, and the history of it. Central Idea Ceren the frozen in time village was preserved and the history of its people. Introduction  We know or at least heard of Pompeii, the Italian city that was buried under the volcanic ash for many centuries until it was discovered.  In one unfortunate day, the city of Pompeii witnessed the wrath of the X mountain when a…

IV. Mesoproterozoic Depending on what part of Minnesota you would have been in during the Mesoproterozoic there would have been different things occurring. In Northern Minnesota, the greenstones and granites were eroding away along with the gneiss and granite in north central Minnesota. This erosion created a lot of quartz, which was eventually turned into quartz sandstone (Ojakangas, and Matsch 1982). These quartz sandstones are the Sioux Quartzite of southwestern Minnesota, the Nopeming…

Damages were not nearly as serious as it would be today, mostly because Southern California was sparsely populated. The effects of the earthquake were quite dramatic, even frightening. Were the Fort Tejon shock to happen today, the damage would easily run into billions of dollars, and the loss of life would be substantial. On March 10, 1933, a 6.4 earthquake hit the Newport-Inglewood Fault, causing serious damage in long Beach and other communities. The earthquake resulted in 120 deaths and more…

of the tests subjected to this particular sample was a float test. While sample “D” did end up sinking, it attempted to float before slowly sinking to the bottom of the cup filled with water. Pumice is an igneous rock formed from quickly cooled magma (Pumice, 2014). Unlike pumice, example “E” is quite tough and…

Geothermal energy is one of the oldest sources of energy. (Geo) a Latin root meaning earth and (thermo) a Greek root meaning heat, is where the word originates from. A simple way to phrase it would be that you are using renewable, heat energy from the earth. So what exactly does it do? According to an article by Alternative Energy Some forms of geothermal energy heats up groundwater. This heat eventually generates to hot spots surfacing near the surface of the crust. Examples of these hot…

tectonic plate’s convergent boundaries come crashing together resulting in one going below the other. This results in the bottom plate to sink into the mantle. Mid-ocean ridge is an underwater mountain ridge that forms when convection currents causes magma to rise where two tectonic plates meet at a divergent boundary. Ocean trench are long narrow depressions on the sea floor as a result most ocean trenches form as a result of subduction but sometimes form because of asymmetry between the…