Slide 1 The Story of Rocks How did all of these rocks get here? Slide 2 Rock types Rock types are based on the way the rocks formed! Igneous Sedimentary Metamorphic Rock…

Slide 1By Elizabeth Forsman Blaikie California Gold Rush art.com Slide 2 Gold Rush January 24, 1948 John Marshall found gold at Sutter's mill People migrated from all…

Slide 1 Slide 2 Continental Glaciers (Ice Sheets) and Illinois Glaciation Slide 3 Phanerozoic – EON Cenozoic – ERA Quaternary – PERIOD Pleistocene - EPOCH (1.8 mya…

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Slide 1 The Rock Cycle Slide 2 How can this be a cycle? What rock forms when magma cools? –igneous rock How is sedimentary rock formed? –pressure and cementing of sediment…

Slide 1 The Formation of Planets Lecture by C.P. Dullemond Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics Heidelberg University Image Credit: NASA Slide 2 The Big Questions After…

Slide 1 Garter Snakes By Tatum Coutu Slide 2 Why are people afraid of snakes? Why are people so afraid of snakes if there are no poisonous in Rhode Island? Is it because…

Slide 1 Weathering and Erosion 5 th Grade Slide 2 What is weathering? Physical break up of the rocks on Earth’s surface into smaller pieces of sand or rock. Physical break…

Slide 1 Earthquakes Volcanoes Earthquakes, volcanoes and plate tectonics Slide 2  Elastic Rebound: when rocks are put stress they may break causing elastic rebound …

Slide 1 Slide 2  The term mass movement describes all downhill movements of weathered material, including soil, loose stones and rocks, in response to gravity  It excludes…