CALIFORNIA GEOLOGY 20

OUTLINE / STUDY GUIDE / CHECK LIST

Part 1

•  Lab #1 on Minerals, Friday February 9th

•  Careers in Earth Science (know at least 6)

•  The Rock Cycle: Any questions?

Part 2  PLATE TECTONICS:

•  Plate Tectonics definition, Lithospheric Plates / components, Cordilleran, rates of movement

•  Divergent Boundaries : basaltic volcanism, continental rifts, linear seas, oceanic ridges, trailing edge margins, SFS, formation of oceanic lithosphere

•  Convergent Boundaries : deep sea trenches, subduction (3 types), andesitic volcanism, island arcs, back arc-basins, fore arc-basins, docking, sutures, accretionary wedges, accreted terranes, ophiolites, obduction, folded mountain ranges, plutonic mountain ranges, leading edge margins

•  Transcurrent Boundaries : transform, transcurrent, deformation, compression, transpression, extension, transtension

Part 3  MORE PLATE TECTONICS:

•  Isostatic Equilibrium and changes

•  Earth's Magnetic Field, polar reversals, polar wandering

•  Continental Drift

Part 4 & 5 California's Geomorphic Provinces AND GEOLOGIC TIME: eons, eras, periods, epochs, radioactivity, isotopes, half life, geologic time scale