Geology Essay Topics

A search for scholarly reviewed material involving the St. Francois Mountains and Butler Hill formations returned a four notable sources. Gary Lowell and Alex Blaxland produced one article each while J. Ronald Sides produced two articles on the subject. However, the University of Tennessee at Martin has a limited journal selection and the available material is that of J. Ronald Sides articles. Literature Review Ronald describes the mountains as a shallow composite batholith located in southeastern

community evolved into the twelfth century, Mesa Verdeans further integrated the geology of their environment into their lifestyles by building homes, known as cliff dwellings, within the naturally formed alcoves of Mesa Verde. By the thirteenth century, the Mesa Verdeans vacated this region due to severe droughts and subsequent social instability. Despite the later abandonment of their cliff dwellings, it is clear that the geology of Mesa Verde National Park impacted the lives of the Ancestral Puebloans

LANDSLIDES Introduction The term ‘landslide’ includes all varieties of mass movements of hill slopes and can be defined as the downward and outward movement of slope forming materials composed of rocks, soils, artificial fills or combination of all these materials along surfaces of separation by falling, sliding and flowing, either slowly or quickly from one place to another. Although the landslides are primarily associated with mountainous terrains, these can also occur in areas where an activity

There are many ways to explain how Earth and everything else came to be. Such as, Uniformitarianism, Catastrophism, Gradualism, and Punctuated Equilibrium. Generally, Uniformitarianism and Catastrophism are grouped together while Punctuated Equilibrium and Gradualism are grouped together separately from Uniformitarianism and Catastrophism. Gradualism and Punctuated Equilibrium are usually looked at through a biblical stand point rather than how Uniformitarianism and Catastrophism are looked at from

together and formed lots of mountains. And finally, fossils tell us that organisms such as dinosaurs lived and thrived on Pangea, and spread their skeletons on the supercontinent. In conclusion, Wegener’s idea of the supercontinent Pangea changed geology forever, even though the Fixists were against it in the beginning, if this evidence was known in 1920, the time of the Fixists, everyone would be in support of Wegener's

My interest in the planet and sciences developed at GCSE, where I was introduced to areas of physical geography such as plate tectonics, and the part that geologists should play in resolving challenging environmental matters. This led me to organising a trip to Mt Vesuvius and Pompeii, to not only experience to impact on the Earth but to try to understand the Earth’s mechanisms and how to maximise its potential to not just complement our lives but to make them better from past events. From then

surface through geological time. The theory of plate tectonics, which use to be called continental drift, is described as the movement of the continents and sea floor across the surface of the Earth. The theory explains many odd facts about Earth’s geology, such as the present arrangement of landmasses which have stated that the Earth’s crust slowly drifts atop a liquid core. 2. What was Alfred Wegener’s hypothesis for continental drift, and why was his idea not accepted? Wegener hypothesized that

Individual Week 1 Review Questions GLG/220 10/02/2013 Critical and Creative Thinking Questions Chapter 1 3. How do you think the principle of uniformitarianism accounts for occasional catastrophic events such as meteorite impacts, huge volcanic eruptions, or great earthquakes? The principle of uniformitarianism states the processes occurring on Earth today are very similar in manner as those throughout much of geologic times. In other words “the present is the key to the past.”(Murck

Ashleigh Hartsock Death Valley Patterned ground in Death Valley “Salt can be thought of as the warm form of ice. In some extreme cases, geologists that go to Death Valley substitute salt into their lemonade as a refreshing treat.” – Gabriel Chevalier Patterned ground, which refers to a “ground whose surface has developed orderly patterns, such as polygons, circles, steplike forms (terracettes), and stripes” (Hunt, Charles B., Robinson, Bowles, Washburn; B104), is characteristic of and reaches a

Nevada Hazards Wendy Gurganus Coastal Carolina Community College One of the geologic hazards in Nevada is the Mountain ranges. The reason these are hazards is because most of the ranges in Nevada have a major fault line on either side of them. Some of these faults have been active within the last 1.6 million years, and have had large earthquakes. This causes the ranges to tilt and shift and raised the ranges to higher levels. As far as seismic activity goes, Nevada is the third most active