Sedimentary rock

Introduction To extract shale oil from up to 750 meters below the surface of a location on the Western slope in Colorado, the trapped organic matter (kerogen) must be slowly heated over a period of several years. Heater(s) will be placed throughout the rock shale to increase the temperature to as close to 400 C as possible without going over. As the organic matter is cooked, it needs to be contained by setting up a freeze wall consisting of a closed-loop piping system with cooled liquid. This…

Introduction For my research paper I was given the West Berkeley Shellmound. The purpose of this final paper is to explore the issues and concepts covered in the course, Anthropology 2 – Introduction to Archaeology, by considering the limitations and potentials of archaeological research. It is in this paper that I will assess the limitations of data, methods, and theory for the past investigation at the West Berkeley Shellmound and use critical evaluations to construct an alternative research…

Explorer (May/June 2014). Since then I’ve wondered about the other ancient volcanic plugs that make up the nine sisters, a group that starts with Morro Rock and ends at Islay Hill in the southeast corner of San Luis Obispo. I decided to trek down to the area with the idea of exploring the other morros, or at least the ones open to exploration. Morro Rock is environmentally sensitive and closed to climbing. Chumash Peak has no access, and Cerro Romauldo is used only by the National Guard.…

Ocean rocks got piled up was located in the northeast. The collision of the Northeastern part of North America and Baltica didn’t really affect the southern coast until part of Avalon called the Carolina Terrane hit the southern part. These collisions caused the rocks to be metamorphosed. North America and Baltica at this time were located near the equator and North America was moving…

and the deep ocean floors only 13 percent in volume. Another sort of sediments are pelagic sediments which are fine-grained and settled far from land, for example, siliceous oozes, calcareous oozes, and red clays. Lithogenous sediments consists of rock and minerals are also found far from shore, however, it is used interchangeably with terrigenous sediments. Pelagic sediments are slow-accumulating deposits at the average rate about 1 millimeter per 1000 years because these sediments accumulated…

The Elena Gallegos Open Space area sits near the base of the Sandia Mountains on a piedmont surface. This exercise was intended to gain insight into the mountain-front landforms of the Pino Embayment area. Through the use of surficial geological mapping and soil descriptions we were able to establish relative ages of geomorphic surfaces of the area and determine whether the area displayed qualities of alluvial fan and pediment surfaces. The geomorphic setting of the study area showed…

the attraction entails nearly twenty caves which stretch along a two-mile loop. There are forty-seven thousand acres of land, so there is plenty for students to discover. Scenic trails, cinder cones, natural volcanoes, high desert, and different rocks could be an advantage for students to…

Marble is a metamorphic rock that can be found in lots of places, this rock has many uses in our everyday life. This rock can be found in many common household items. There are many different colors of marble that are found all over the world. Colorful marble is discolored due to how it was formed. When marble is formed from a limestone that has few impurities, the marble turns white. If the marble contains clay minerals, iron oxides, or bituminous minerals, the marble will turn a different…

The Raton Basin In this paper the coal system of the Raton Baton basin will be analyzed and broken down into sections that include, structure and stratigraphy, coal quality, igneous intrusions, coal-bed methane, and the hydrocarbon production within the basin. The purpose of analyzing the Raton Basin is to understand coal diagenesis and the aspects of the basin that affect coal quality and production. Information for this paper has been gathered by several reports published by the United…

given an observation journal to record primary data about the two types of rocks, at Coomera (Nucrush Quarry) and at Springwood Conservation Park. To maintain an equal representation, secondary data will be used to refer to the main points. On our field trip, we went to Nucrush Quarry at Coomera. Nucrush offer a range of products that are all made from a sedimentary rock by the name of, Greywacke. Figure 1: The Rock Cycle According to figure 1, greywacke is formed deep under the sea. The…