Slide 1 Geosc. 10: Unit 4 – The Blue Ridge The Blue Ridge Parkway, Virginia, in January, plus some other Appalachian pictures. All photos by R. Alley The Blue Ridge runs…

Slide 1 Mariner 10 Mercury Discovery Rupes (Discovery scarp) Thrust faults formed as the planet’s interior cooled and shrank, causing compression in the crust Slide 2 Tectonism…

Plate Tectonics Or Do the continents move because they donât like their neighbors? 19th century geologists wondered about the origin of mountains. How were they formed?…

Types of plate boundaries Divergent plate boundary Oceanic spreading ridge Continental Rift zone New rock produced Convergent plate boundary Oceanic-oceanic convergence Continental-continental…

MOUNTAIN AND MOUNTAIN RANGES A. Mountain any part of the Earthâs surface sufficiently elevated above its surroundings to have a distinct summit and to be considered worthy…

Evidence for Continental Movement Evidence of Continental Drift - The shape of coastlines match Philosopher Sir Francis Bacon remarked about this in 1620 Evidence of Continental…

The Earthâs Evolving Crust The Four Major Steps in the Formation of a Sedimentary Rock 1. Weathering & Erosion 2. Transport 3. Deposition 4. Lithification Clastic Sediment:…

Relative Dating I. Relative Dating Relative Dating is when you give the age of a rock or fossil compared to another rock or fossil. Example: Rock A is OLDER than Rock B.…

MOUNTAIN AND MOUNTAIN RANGES A. Mountain any part of the Earthâs surface sufficiently elevated above its surroundings to have a distinct summit and to be considered worthy…

Chapter 12: Lithostratigraphy Law of Superposition In any succession of strata, not disturbed or overturned since deposited, younger rocks lie above older rocks. 1 2 3 4…