GEOL 212 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Continental Crust, Seafloor Spreading, Basalt

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Geology
• Course: GEOL 212
• Professor: John Merck

Document Summary

Let"s assume that middle earth has a lithosphere and asthenosphere like the real earth"s: examine the map in figure 1 and answer the following questions about it. Part two: tolkien aficionados have little to say about the ered luin, the orogeny of region. A in the northwest because no action of the lord of the rings trilogy occurs there: as our map reveals, they are actually rather interesting because their northern half (north-northeast of the a) contains several simultaneously active volcanoes. Part three: although erebor, the lonely mountain (c) gives off fire and heat, we ignore it here because these phenomena are caused by a dragon a better topic for a biology course. Instead consider the single large active volcano (d) at the east end of ered. Mithrin, in the north: examination reveals that the other mountains of this range are extinct volcanoes and that they get progressively older as one traces them from east to west.