Geology Essay Topics

Marine and Lacustrine Deposits ORIGINS AND GEOTECHNICAL ISSUES Robert Bartus s2721227 | 4 104ENG Geotechnical Engineering Practice | August 19, 2012 1 The origins of soil deposits on the earth’s crust can reveal significant findings in the chemical and mechanical characteristics of the soils themselves. It is important to uncover such origins to find how and where such deposits may have formed over tens of thousands of years ago. Marine and Lacustrine deposits are two soil types that are commonly

Billy Goat Trail The Billy Goat trail currently located in Maryland and is part of the Great Falls. After getting familiar with the Billy Goat Trail you can see all the evidence that a great geological phenomenon has occurred at that location. This location went through several geographical changes that I will be mentioning along with some of the evidence from the Billy Goat Trail. The Billy Goat Trail actually started at the bottom of the Iaptus Ocean more than 460 million years ago. At the

Cascadia Subduction Zone and San Andreas Fault On August 24, 2014 a magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurred in and around the city of Napa, CA. The earthquake killed one person and injured over 150 people. And these people were treated at Queen of the Valley Medical Center in Napa [1]. More and more earthquakes occurred on this earth. So this grasps people’s attention. According to the research report, it will cause thousands of people die, towns submerged, buildings and bridges damaged once a huge earthquake

Dating the Rocks of The Grand Canyon (old earth vs. young earth) I. Introduction The Grand Canyon is a National Park located in Arizona where over four billion individuals go to visit yearly (“Grand Canyon National Park,” n.d.; Hill & Moshier, 2009, p. 99). It is over “18 miles wide”; “a mile deep”; and “300 miles long” (“Grand Canyon National Park,” n.d.; Bohlin, 1993). When looking at the Grand Canyon, there are essentially two sides, the South side and the North side also known as Rims. Both

Bangladesh is prone to various disasters having immense harmful consequences associated with different natural and man-made hazards. Among most of the natural hazards, Landslide is being prioritized as a matter of great concern as a result of its devastating nature. South-eastern part of Bangladesh is very much prone to this hazard with long history of instability since the people have been living there though there is not enough record of incidents. Landslides are frequently resulting in losses

Our third stop was along the interstate, right between two formations of Washita Valley. The formation on the north of us was represented by Pennsylvanian Collings Ranch Conglomerate (around 350 million years old), which is shown with blue color on the map and the formation on the south of us was represented by Ordovician Kindblade Limestone (around 450mil years old), shown by the pink color on the map. There is a huge time gap between these two formations. The Collings Ranch Conglomerate is outstandingly

ESSAY QUESTION #3 Tell us about a community or cultural experience or any group gathering you have participated in recently that meant a lot to you. In October of 2016 I participated in a community function that changed my life, my future goals, and made me a more knowledgeable and confident person. As a Teen Science Scholar in the earth sciences department, last summer, I was given life changing opportunity to go to the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology’s annual international conference, to interact

The sedimentary record is the best archive of basin-forming tectonics and structural processes, particularly in regions with complex tectonic history such as the Eastern Cordillera in the Northern Andes of Colombia. Multiple tectonic episodes have driven fault reactivation and sedimentation in the Cenozoic is related to contractional strain. Sedimentary basins within the Eastern Cordillera contain coarse and fine grained units. The presence of coarse grained units in the distal regions of a foreland

Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics Theory (Part 1a) Introduction: The Beginning of the “Continental Drift Theory” In the middle of the eighteenth century, James Hutton proposed a theory, uniformitarianism; “the present is the key to the past”. It held that processes such as geologic forces- gradual and catastrophic-occurring in the present were the same that operated in the past. (Matt Rosenberg, 2004) This theory coincides with the theory of Continental Drift that was first proposed by Abraham

At the intersection of Neva Road and U.S. 36 we examined three different members, the Smoky Hill, Fort Hayes, and Codell, which belong to two different formations, Niobrara and Benton. The Smoky Hill and Fort Hayes belong to the Niobrara formation while Codell belongs to the Benton Formation. In the Niobrara’s Smoky Hill and Benton, Inoceramid clam (giant clam) fossils were found. These three formations are of Late Cretaceous. The Smoky Hill Member is mainly a calcareous mudstone, a rock outcrop