GLG 301 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Permafrost, Stream Capture, Radiometric Dating
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This is an advance version for your convenience taken from last year and therefore subject to change. We may or may not get to all of these subjects; we also may skip some and/or add some. This guide is not exhaustive but should cover most points i would put on a test. Also it may not be as even as it could be (meaning i may have listed some material in more depth than others although they are equally important). Corrections and changes will be made through the exam date. Mineral (what makes a mineral); mineral properties: cleavage, hardness, streak, etc. Mafic and felsic rocks (minerals) igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks: what processes are involved in how they form lithosphere and asthenosphere, plate. Divergent, convergent, and transform plate boundaries (and what happens there) Craton, mobile belt, abyssal plain, mid-ocean ridge, deep-sea trench, island arc. Cleavage (mineralogy), fracture, silica tetrahedra, silicate mineral, crystal structure.
