CEE 1030 Study Guide - Final Guide: Continental Crust, Oceanic Crust, Plate Tectonics

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Lecture 1 (august 25th) - introduction: which state had the most earthquakes in 2014: california, maine, oregon, or oklahoma, oklahoma. One will ride under the other plate, but nothing gets recycled: divergent - make new crust, plates pull away from each other. Know the two examples from lectures: they occur where the lithosphere moves over mantle plumes, producing volcanoes, not a boundary, examples, yellowstone, hawaii. How does this relate to the geotherm and changing pressure and temperature conditions within the. 2: polymorph - minerals with the same composition, but different crystalline structure. You should also be able to determine which igneous rock textures are associated with intrusive vs. extrusive environments. You should understand why felsic magma produces more explosive eruptions than mafic magma. Rainier, and what is the structure of these volcanoes and the plate tectonic setting that they are associated with: mt. For example, what geological setting results in regional metamorphism: contact or thermal metamorphism.

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