Table of Contents
40 relations: Adelaide Superbasin, Archean, Asthenosphere, Back-arc basin, Basin and Range Province, Bolide, Colorado School of Mines, Continental drift, Craton, Earth-Science Reviews, Fractionation, Geological Society of America, Gondwana, International Geophysical Year, Island arc, Kinematics, List of Penrose Medal winners, Lithos (journal), Lithosphere, Mafic, MohoroviÄiÄ discontinuity, National Academy of Sciences, Orogeny, Petrology, Phanerozoic, Plate tectonics, Potassium-40, Proterozoic, San Andreas Fault, Seafloor spreading, Second law of thermodynamics, Sierra Nevada Batholith, Subduction, Terrane, Thomas Kuhn, Thorium, Transantarctic Mountains, United States Geological Survey, Upper mantle, Uranium.
Adelaide Superbasin
The Adelaide Superbasin (previously known as the Adelaide Geosyncline and Adelaide Rift Complex) is a major Neoproterozoic to middle Cambrian geological province in central and south-east South Australia, western New South Wales, and western Victoria.
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Archean
The Archean Eon (also spelled Archaean or Archæan), in older sources sometimes called the Archaeozoic, is the second of the four geologic eons of Earth's history, preceded by the Hadean Eon and followed by the Proterozoic.
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Asthenosphere
The asthenosphere is the mechanically weak and ductile region of the upper mantle of Earth.
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Back-arc basin
A back-arc basin is a type of geologic basin, found at some convergent plate boundaries.
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Basin and Range Province
The Basin and Range Province is a vast physiographic region covering much of the inland Western United States and northwestern Mexico.
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Bolide
A bolide is normally taken to mean an exceptionally bright meteor, but the term is subject to more than one definition, according to context.
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Colorado School of Mines
Colorado School of Mines (Mines) is a public research university in Golden, Colorado founded in 1874.
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Continental drift
Continental drift is the hypothesis, originating in the early 20th century, that Earth's continents move or drift relative to each other over geologic time.
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Craton
A craton (or; from κρĪ¬τος "strength") is an old and stable part of the continental lithosphere, which consists of Earth's two topmost layers, the crust and the uppermost mantle.
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Earth-Science Reviews
Earth-Science Reviews is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Elsevier.
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Fractionation
Fractionation is a separation process in which a certain quantity of a mixture (of gasses, solids, liquids, enzymes, or isotopes, or a suspension) is divided during a phase transition, into a number of smaller quantities (fractions) in which the composition varies according to a gradient.
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Geological Society of America
The Geological Society of America (GSA) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of the geosciences.
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Gondwana
Gondwana was a large landmass, sometimes referred to as a supercontinent.
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International Geophysical Year
The International Geophysical Year (IGY; Année géophysique internationale), also referred to as the third International Polar Year, was an international scientific project that lasted from 1 July 1957 to 31 December 1958.
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Island arc
Island arcs are long chains of active volcanoes with intense seismic activity found along convergent tectonic plate boundaries.
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Kinematics
Kinematics is a subfield of physics and mathematics, developed in classical mechanics, that describes the motion of points, bodies (objects), and systems of bodies (groups of objects) without considering the forces that cause them to move.
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List of Penrose Medal winners
The Penrose Medal was created in 1925 by R.A.F. Penrose, Jr., as the top prize awarded by the Geological Society of America.
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Lithos (journal)
Lithos is a peer-reviewed academic journal, publishing original research papers on the petrology, geochemistry and petrogenesis of igneous and metamorphic rocks.
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Lithosphere
A lithosphere is the rigid, outermost rocky shell of a terrestrial planet or natural satellite.
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Mafic
A mafic mineral or rock is a silicate mineral or igneous rock rich in magnesium and iron.
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MohoroviÄiÄ discontinuity
The MohoroviÄiÄ discontinuityusually called the Moho discontinuity, Moho boundary, or just Mohois the boundary between the crust and the mantle of Earth.
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National Academy of Sciences
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization.
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Orogeny
Orogeny is a mountain-building process that takes place at a convergent plate margin when plate motion compresses the margin.
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Petrology
Petrology is the branch of geology that studies rocks, their mineralogy, composition, texture, structure and the conditions under which they form.
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Phanerozoic
The Phanerozoic is the current and the latest of the four geologic eons in the Earth's geologic time scale, covering the time period from 538.8 million years ago to the present.
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Plate tectonics
Plate tectonics is the scientific theory that Earth's lithosphere comprises a number of large tectonic plates, which have been slowly moving since 3–4 billion years ago.
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Potassium-40
Potassium-40 (40K) is a radioactive isotope of potassium which has a long half-life of 1.25 billion years.
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Proterozoic
The Proterozoic is the third of the four geologic eons of Earth's history, spanning the time interval from 2500 to 538.8Mya, the longest eon of the Earth's geologic time scale.
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San Andreas Fault
The San Andreas Fault is a continental right-lateral strike-slip transform fault that extends roughly through the U.S. state of California.
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Seafloor spreading
Seafloor spreading, or seafloor spread, is a process that occurs at mid-ocean ridges, where new oceanic crust is formed through volcanic activity and then gradually moves away from the ridge.
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Second law of thermodynamics
The second law of thermodynamics is a physical law based on universal empirical observation concerning heat and energy interconversions.
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Sierra Nevada Batholith
The Sierra Nevada Batholith is a large batholith that is approximately 400 miles long and 60-80 miles wide which forms the core of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in California, exposed at the surface as granite.
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Subduction
Subduction is a geological process in which the oceanic lithosphere and some continental lithosphere is recycled into the Earth's mantle at convergent boundaries.
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Terrane
In geology, a terrane (in full, a tectonostratigraphic terrane) is a crust fragment formed on a tectonic plate (or broken off from it) and accreted or "sutured" to crust lying on another plate.
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Thomas Kuhn
Thomas Samuel Kuhn (July 18, 1922 – June 17, 1996) was an American historian and philosopher of science whose 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was influential in both academic and popular circles, introducing the term paradigm shift, which has since become an English-language idiom.
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Thorium
Thorium is a chemical element.
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Transantarctic Mountains
The Transantarctic Mountains (abbreviated TAM) comprise a mountain range of uplifted rock (primarily sedimentary) in Antarctica which extends, with some interruptions, across the continent from Cape Adare in northern Victoria Land to Coats Land.
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United States Geological Survey
The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an agency of the United States government whose work spans the disciplines of biology, geography, geology, and hydrology.
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Upper mantle
The upper mantle of Earth is a very thick layer of rock inside the planet, which begins just beneath the crust (at about under the oceans and about under the continents) and ends at the top of the lower mantle at.
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Uranium
Uranium is a chemical element; it has symbol U and atomic number 92.
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References
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