Slide 1 Slide 2 Objective Our primary objective was to research craters in close proximity to the Mare Orientale basin. We scoured this section of the moon looking for craters…
Slide 1 Slide 2 Rifting Triassic. Rifting along Atlantic margin. Subduction along west coast. Gulf of Mexico opens. Sandstones filling rift basins along east coast, Newark…
Slide 1 UNDERSTANDING STRAIN ACCOMODATION IN SPACE AND TIME (AND WITH DEPTH) ACROSS THE NORTHERN BASIN AND RANGE Questions and Problems generated by an evolving database…
Slide 1 Shear zones and shear sense indicators Please read (D&R, pp. 493-551) Slide 2 Shear zone: zone of highly strained rocks A fault zone is a shear zone formed in…
Slide 1 Insights to extensional processes during magma assisted rifting: Evidence from aligned scoria cones. Reviewed by Richard Fletcher Slide 2 Overview Studies of continental…
“Parade of the Professors” (Most Tuesdays) Purpose: Introduce you to our faculty Classic Papers (Most Thursdays) http://www.colorado.edu/GeolSci/ courses/GEOL5700-9/…
Geology 3120 - Unconformities and Contacts Outline The âcontactâ that started it all⦠Steno, Hutton, and Lyell Conformities and Unconformities The Grand Canyon and Contact…
Task 2. Test site “Messina Strait” WP2.5 G. Neri, Univ. Messina Meccanismi dei terremoti e regimi di stress tettonico nell’area dello Stretto di Messina Focal mechanisms…
Types of Mountains TYPES OF MOUNTAINS Volcanic: Folded: Dome: Fault-Block With a partner, predict how each mountain is formed. TYPES OF MOUNTAINS Volcanic: Shield and composite;…
WHAT IS OROGENY? Processes of mtn building Distinctive patterns of deposition eugeocline, miogeocline Deformation Folding and thrust-faulting Metamorphism Intrusions: batholiths,…