Slide 1 Field Trip information: 2015 May 21, 2015 Cost: $5 Bus leaves at 8am Bring a lunch and a frisbee or football to throw around. Wear tennis shoes, longer pants, jacket…

Slide 1 Plate Tectonics Horizontal Movement of Earth’s Lithosphere Additional Reading: USGS Plate Tectonics (Pdf) – class web site Slide 2 Learning Objectives Understand…

Slide 1 The Rock Cycle Revisited Chapter 11 Geology Today Barbara W. Murck & Brian J. Skinner N. Lindsley-Griffin, 1999 MOUNT EVEREST, HIMALAYA MTNS. Slide 2 Earliest…

Slide 1 The Olympic Mountains A Wedge of Fun Slide 2 Olympic Mountains, Wilapa Hills & Oregon Coast Range E-1 Slide 3 Geology Map Slide 4 Major Rock Units E-4 1.Peripheral…

Slide 1 Development of Continental Drift Frank Taylor (1910) Alfred Wegener (1912) Die Entstehung Der Kontinente Und Ozeane Slide 2 Plate Tectonics Continental Drift Evidence…

Slide 1 Volcanic Hazards in the U.S. Slide 2 Outline Cascades –Mt. St. Helens –Mt. Rainier –Crater Lake –Mt. Shasta –Lassen Other eruptions –Yellowstone –Long…

Slide 1 Processes causing earthquakes Slide 2 What causes earthquakes? The shaking motion of an earthquake is the result of a sudden release of energy. Earthquakes are caused…

Slide 1 Slide 2  Formed when the Juan de Fuca plate, an oceanic plate, pushed under the North American plate, a continental plate.  Magma forced up through the Earth's…

Slide 1 EVOLUTION OF THE CHEMISTRY OF OUR EARTH’S OCEANS “Weathering”portion based on lecture by David Montgomery Slide 2 EVOLUTION OF THE CHEMISTRY OF OUR EARTH’S…

Slide 1 More U.S. and Canadian Earthquakes Natural Disasters, 6 th edition, Chapter 7 Slide 2 U.S. and Canadian Earthquakes Earthquakes occur throughout North America, not…