Geology 270 When it comes to choosing classes for a semester I always try to choose an enjoyable class. One where I know I will not have to stress over tests and homework. Last semester was weight training. This semester as I was browsing I stumbled upon a class titled Geology 270. This class caught my attention right away. I looked at the course description and read it. The thing that stood out the most was that in this class we would study the geology of the eastern Sierra Nevada in one of the
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REACTION PAPER 1. Terraforming Mars Terraforming is the process of transforming a hostile environment into one suitable for human life. Being that Mars is the most Earth-like planet‚ it is the best candidate for terraforming. At the rate that the human population is growing‚ it is already evident that we are overpopulating earth‚ and with no signs of the population increase slowing‚ it is obvious that we are going to need to find new living arrangements. Where are we to find more space? The
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fCurrent Location 1. 2012FA-BUSI-2301-6001 2012FA-BUSI-2301-6001 2. Exams 3. Take Test: Exam 2 Menu Management Options * * * * * Expand All * Collapse All * 2012FA-BUSI-2301-6001 (2012FA-BUSI-2301-6001) * Textbooks * Syllabus * Instructor Info * Exams * Case Studies * Email * Power Points * Make a RTF File * Announcements * Check grade * Tools * Class Policies Take Test: Exam 2 Content
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Describe in basic terms how elements were/are formed during the big bang (including the reasons why only H/He formed abundantly)‚ during normal stellar operation (including why some elements such as Si and Fe were formed more abundantly)‚ and during supernova processes/explosion Big bang only thing that forms out of the big bang is the nuetrons. Protons plus electrons = hydrogen. Hydrogen fuses the helium. There are no stable atoms with 5 or 8 nucleons (hydrogen would have 5‚ helium would have
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Quiz #2: Chapters 5-6 Fill in the blanks. (5 points each) PART I A. Asthenosphere D. Ocean ridge system B. Lithosphere E. Alfred Wegener C. Pangaea 1. A single supercontinent consisting of all Earth’s landmass that began to break up about 200 million years ago was called C. 2. In 1915‚ a German meteorologist and geophysicist named E wrote The Origin of Continents and Oceans and set forth a basic outline
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2. 1.1 The particles that make up an atom3 Basic sub-atomic particles‚ each has different properties. Name | Symbol | Approximate relative mass | More accurate mass | Relative charge | Proton | p | 1 | 1.0000 | +1 | Neutron | n | 1 | 1.0016 | 0 | Electron | e | Almost zero | 0.000 547 | -1 | This is the culmination of the work of 5 eminent physicists‚ Dalton‚ Thomson‚ Rutherford‚ Bohr and Chadwick.Their work basically culminates in the ideas above and the important fact that an atom consists
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GSCI Final Exam Study Guide Glaciers q 1-24 34% Text book p 570-587 Ice as a Rock - Mass of crystalline grains of the mineral ice - Like sedimentary: formed from material in deposited layers‚ can accumulate a great Thickness - Igneous: formed by the freezing of a fluid - Metamorphic: transformed by recrystallization under pressure - Flows readily downhill like a viscous fluid because of structural weakness - Glaciers: large masses of ice on land that show evidence of
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Review for Midterm Earth is 4.6 billion years old What do Geologist do Study the structure of mountain ranges Attempt to predict geological hazard Principle of parsimony = Occams Razor (Simpler is better) Deep Time The amount of time of Earth’s existence Universe began=Big Bang Theory Earth’s creation= Nebula hypothesis Geological time Scale Largest units to smallest (EEPE) Eons Eras Periods Epocs Cambrien Explosion Mass amount of fossils found in the Cambrien time period Names
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INTRODUCTION For millennia mankind has inhabited the third planet from the sun; the planet that supports life and is know to us as Earth. Although there has been life on Earth for quite sometime‚ it is only in the past few centuries that man has come to learn about what makes up the interior of this planet. The English scientist‚ Isaac Newton‚ can be seen as a pioneer in regards to learning about the Earth ’s interior‚ as he calculated from his studies of planets and the force of gravity‚ that
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Review questions 1-10 Pages 146-147 1. Describe the three different kinds of material that can erupt from a volcano. Products of eruption come in three forms; lave flow‚ which can be Basaltic‚ Andesitic or Rhyolitic lava. A volcano also erupts pyroclastic debris (when lava flies into the air and freezes) and gases. 2. Contrast a pyroclastic flow with a lahar. Pyroglastic debris are blasting clots of lava‚ and the lahar are like mudslides that can reach up to 50km per hour. When the
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