Quizbowl Geologic Structures I

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Isopach maps

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Sideromelane

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Forms hyaloclastite deposits

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Coulees

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Maars

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Trigger jokulhlaups

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mobergs

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Diatremes

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Tuff

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Produce pahoehoe

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“The Table”

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“Tiger stripes”

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Activity on Io

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“Cryo-” type

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“Shield” type

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Olympus Mons

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Tuyas

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Cryptodomes

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Pyroclastic flow

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A’a

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Calderas

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Obsidian

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Pumice

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Tephra

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Plinian/Strombolian events

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Lahars

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Toba Catastrophe

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Siberian traps w/ Great Dying

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Indonesia contains largest density of ___

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Extrusive rocks

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“Bombs”

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“Strato-” type

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Lapilli

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Underwater “black smokers”

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Form at hotspots/mantle plumes

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“Mud” types

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Vesiculation and umbrella regions

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thick/thin-skinned deformation

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Interactions of ___ produce Wadati-Beinoff zones

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Triple junctions

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Ridge push

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Slab suction

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Drive orogeny

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Wilson cycle

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RRF/FFR junctions

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Cratons

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Accretionary wedges form at ___

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Float on top of mantle

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Controlled by isostasy

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dextral/sinistral directions

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Basal drag

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Structures involved in continental drift theory

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Become aulacogen

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Ancient ones, Fallaron/Izanagi

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Meet at convergent/divergent boundaries

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passive/active margins

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Darcy’s Law

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Ghyben-Herzeberg relation

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“Perched” / “confined” types

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“Slug test”

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Theis equation

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Potentiometric surface

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Storativity measurement

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Caused by extracting beyond equilibrium yield

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Overdrafting

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Great Artesian Basin

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Ogallala type

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Dupuit-Thiem equation

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Q = KA / dh/dl

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Saline intrusions

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Percolation recharges ___

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Hydraulic heads

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Richards’s Law

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Vadose zone

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Pheratic zone

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“Artesian” type

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Keystone Pipeline

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Dupuit assumption

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Chalk type in Britain

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“Nutrient spiralling”

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Continuum concept

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Avulsion

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Lotic ecosystems

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Riparian zones border

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“Oxygen sag curve”

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Interact w/ aquifers at hyporheic zones

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Sluggish vs. rapid classification

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Form natural levees via deposition

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Prior appropriation

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Rain shadows

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Oro- prefix

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Fault-block type

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Dana wrongly claimed they result from collapse of geosynclines

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Lentic type

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Paternosters

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“holo/meromitic” types

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Called tarns when formed in cirques

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Kettle type

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Limn- stem

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Namesake “overturns”

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