The Work of Ice

(Group 1) 3 Periods of Cenozoic Era 1. Movement by ice

EARTH: SURFACE, STRUCTURE, & EARTH 1. Paleogene 2. Transport by ice
4 Sphere of the Earth 2. Neogene 3. Glacial erosion
1. Atmosphere 3. Quaternary 4. Glacial deposit
2. Hydrosphere Division of Periods 5. Landforms
3. Biosphere 1. Cambrian 6. Landforms association
4. Geosphere 2. Ordovician and Silurian 7. Post-Depositional Changes
3 Broad Rock Groups 3. Devonian Other Mass Transport
1. Igneous rocks 4. Carboniferous 1. Rainfall
2. Sedimentary rocks 5. Permian 2. Ground water
3. Metamorphic rock 6. Triassic 3. Slope instability
3 Layers of the Earth 7. Jurassic Processes in:
1. Crust 8. Cretaceous Chemical Weathering
Continental crust 9. Paleogene 1. Solution
Oceanic crust 10. Neogene 2. Oxidation
2. Mantle 11. Quaternary 3. Reduction
3. Core Fold Mountain Belts 4. Hydration
Outer core 1. Orogenic Belt (orogeny) 5. Hydrolysis
Inner core 2. Epeirogenic Movement 6. Leaching
2 Types of Plates (epeirogeny) 7. Cation exchange
1. Ocean plates Mechanical Weathering
2. Continental plates 1. Mechanical Unloading
3 Types of Plate Boundary (Group 3) SURFACE PROCESSES 2. Mechanical Loading
1. Divergent Weathering 3. Thermal loading
2. Convergent 1. Chemical weathering 4. Wetting and drying
Continent collision 2. Mechanical weathering 5. Crystallization
Oceanic crust collision 3. Unloading 6. Pneumatic loading
Ocean collision 4. Frost action
3. Transform 5. Permafrost
6. Frost heaving (Group 4) MINERALS
7. Insolation Most Abundant Elements
8. Biological weathering 1. Oxygen
(Group 2) GEOLOGICAL HISTORY 9. Erosion and decomposition 2. Silicon
Theories The Work of Rivers 3. Aluminum
1. James Hutton 1. Valleys 4. Iron
2. William Smith 2. Grade and rejuvenation 5. Calcium
Division of Eons 3. Waterfalls and gorges 6. Magnesium
1. Hadean eon 4. River pattern 7. Sodium
2. Archean eon 5. River deposit 8. Potassium
3. Proterozoic eon 6. Deltas 9. Titanium
Lower The Work of Sea 10. Hydrogen
Middle 1. Tides and currents 11. Manganese
Upper 2. Tidal surges 12. Phosphorous
4. Phanerozoic eon 3. Waves Formation of Minerals
Division of Eras 4. Coastal erosion 1. Crystallization from melt
1. Precambrian era 5. Coastal marine deposit 2. Precipitation from water
2. Palaeozoic era 6. Spits and bar 3. Biological activity
Older Paleozoic Rocks 7. Cuspate forelands 4. Change to more stable state
 Trilobites 8. Barriers 5. Precipitation from vapor
 Brachiopods 9. Mud flats Properties of Minerals
 Graptolites 10. Coral reefs 1. Habit
Newer Palaeozoic Rocks 11. Open sea deposits 2. Color
 Fish The Work of Wind 3. Streak
 Reef-knolls/ bioherms 1. Wind erosion 4. Luster
 Cephalopods 2. Wind-formed deposit 5. Cleavage
 Lepidodendron 3. Coastal and hills 6. Specific gravity
3. Mesozoic era 4. Desert dunes 7. Hardness
4. Cenozoic 5. Loess
Groups of Minerals (Group 6) SEDIMENTARY ROCKS (Group 7) METAMORPHIC ROCKS
1. Silicate 4 Phases of Generation of Sedimentary Types Of Metamorphic Rock
 Silicate tetrahedron Rock 1. Ortho-metamorphic rock
 Isolated tetrahedron 1. Weathering and Erosion 2. Para-metamorphic rock
 Single chain silicates 2. Transportation
 Double chain silicates 3. Deposition Types Of Metamorphism:
 Sheet silicates 4. Lithification 1. Contact metamorphism
 Framework silicate Components of Sed Rocks 2. Regional metamorphism
2. Carbonates 1. Clastic
3. Oxides  Conglomerate Factors Controlling Characteristics Of
4. Sulfides  Sandstone Metamorphic Rock:
5. Phosphates  Shale 1. Composition of the parent rock
6. Native elements 2. Organic 2. Temperature
 Coal 3. Pressure
 Fossiliferous-mestone 4. Fluids
(group 5) IGNEOUS ROCKS 3. Chemical 5. Time
2 Different Types of Igneous Rocks  Limestone
1. Extrusive  Salt Kinds Of Metamorphism:
2. Intrusive Texture of Sedimentary Rocks 1. Geothermal
Different Igneous Intrusion 1. Environments of Deposition 2. Dynamic or kinetic
1. Dikes 2. Continental environments 3. Hydrothermal
2. Sills 3. Shelf sea environments 4. Contact
3. Laccoliths 4. Deep sea environments
4. Plutons 5. Detrital sedimentary rock Kinds Of Metamorphic Rocks:
5. Lopoliths 6. Rudaceous deposit 1. Gneiss
6. Batholiths 7. Conglomerate 2. Schist
7. Stocks 8. Grit 3. Slate
Composition Type of Igneous Rock 9. Sedimentary mineral deposit 4. Quartzite
1. Felsic Rock 10. Construction materials 5. Marble
2. Intermediate Rock 11. Minerals for chemicals 6. Phylite
3. Mafic and Ultramafic Rocks 12. Placer deposit
Texture of Igneous Rocks 13. Organic fuels Classification Of Metamorphic Rock:
1. Phaneritic / Coarse Grained  Coal 1. Foliated metamorphic rock
2. Non-foliated metamorphic rock
2. Aphanitic / Fine grained  Oil and Gas
3. Vesicular
4. Pyroclastic
5. Glassy
6. Porphyritic
Different Igneous Rock
1. Ultrabasic Rocks
 Picrate
 Serpentinite
2. Basic Rocks
 Gabbro
 Dolerite
 Basalts
3. Intermediate Rocks
 Diorites
 Andesite
4. Acid Rocks
 Granite
 Granodiorite
5. Alkaline
 Syenite
 Trachyte