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LOG 1 CODE: ENDO QUESTIONING
Dear Dr. [REDACTED],
You’ve finally woken up from your hundred-year slumber.
If you’re wondering why you haven’t aged a day, it’s
because you were in cryogenic freeze. If you’re wondering
why you’re alone there, well… it’s because everyone’s
dead (nearly). The TITAN below has been slowly melting
the population ever since it apparated at the Earth’s L1P1 02-25-2110
mantle. We couldn’t touch it, we couldn’t kill it… and so
it killed us.

If you want to help us, you need to stop being confused.

Stop asking yourself questions, but KEEP READING.
I’ve been analyzing your neurological conditions for the
past year. You were one of the most famous geologists in
the foundation a century ago. Unfortunately, you
contracted partial amnesia: a side effect of the
cryo-chamber. In order for you to fight and defeat the
TITAN, you need to re-learn the various processes that L1P2 02-25-2110
occur INSIDE the Earth, for that is where IT resides.

- Dr. Kite
 CODE: ENDO

EARTH’S ENDOGENOUS PROCESSES

ENDOGENOUS PROCESSES
Refers to all the processes that are produced in the
interior of the Earth (and other planets). It is
commonly referred to the process that takes place in the
mantle or the core of the planets but that can
have  subsequent effects on the surface of the planet.

It is also caused by forced from within the interior of

Earth. The driving force is the thermal energy of the
mantle and the crust.
Metamorphism
● Contact metamorphism is a type of metamorphism in which the
mineralogy and texture of a body of rock are changed by exposure
to the pressure and extreme temperature associated with a body of
intruding magma.

● Regional metamorphism is metamorphism that occurs over broad areas

of the crust. Most regionally metamorphosed rocks occur in areas
that have undergone deformation during an orogenic event resulting
in mountain belts that have since been eroded to expose the
metamorphic rocks.
Contact Metamorphism Regional Metamorphism
Magmatism
● Is the formation and movement of
magma under the Earth's crust.
Typically under areas reaching
o
8000 celsius.
● Magmatism is related to plate
boundaries, both convergent and
divergent.
● Intraplate magmatism occurs when
mantle plumes heat up pre-existing
rock and form magma in the
Asthenosphere.
Volcanism/Plutonism
● Plutonism is the process by which
magma rises through the crust and
crystallizes as an intrusive
igneous rock beneath the Earth’s
surface.
● Pluton is a generic word for any
igneous intrusive rock body.
Exactly what causes melting is
complicated and variable.
● Granitic magma also can be
generated in continental crust
without subduction, particularly
if continent-continent collision
occurs.
Faulting
● Cracks in the Earth’s crust
resulting from the displacement
of one side in respect to the
other.
● A zone of fractures between two
blocks of rocks.
● It forms when rock above an
inclined fracture plane moves
downward sliding the rock on
the other side of the fracture.
● There are four types of fault
REVERSE FAULT, STRIKE-SLIP
FAULT, OBLIQUE FAULT, and
NORMAL FAULT.
Folding
● When two forces push towards each
other from opposite sides, the
rock layers will bend into folds.
● The process by which folds are
formed are due to compressional
force known as folding.
● There are large-scale and
small-scale folds. Large-scale
folds are found mainly along
destructive plate boundaries.
● There are two types of foldings,
anticlines and synclines.
● Anticlines are folds shaped like
an arch, and synclines are folds
shaped like the letter ‘U’.
 QUESTIONING

ARE YOU READY TO FIGHT THE TITAN?

YES NO
Your memories are starting to come back
to you. Then you see a set of stairs, and
beside it is a sign:”the way down”.

Groggily, you make your descent. At the

second set of stairs, a deep voice
announces, “I’ve seen your soul a million
lifetimes already. I know what you seek.
Answer my questions right, and I will
guide you to victory. Answer wrong, and
your WORLD DIES WITH YOU.”

The creature descends; afraid, you follow

along.

PLAY
What do you call the cracks in the Earth’s crust
resulting from the displacement of one side in
respect to the other?

A. Folding B. Cramping

C. Faulting D. Tectonic Cracking

WRONG

NEXT

WRONG
CORRECT

NEXT

CORRECT
Is the formation and movement of magma under the
Earth's crust.

A. Volcanism B. Magmatism

C. Plutonism D. Lavatism
WRONG

NEXT

WRONG
CORRECT

NEXT

CORRECT
Which among the four is not a form of tectonic
faulting.

A. Reverse B. Oblique

C. Strike Slip D. Diagonal

WRONG

NEXT

WRONG
CORRECT

NEXT

CORRECT
HOW MANY DID YOU GET RIGHT?

1 2 3
 BAD ENDING

Your newfound guardian is disappointed and abandons you.

You try to find the TITAN but end up lost deep within the Earth’s crust.

You starve and die in quiet desperation, full of regret.

 GOOD ENDING
You know the processes inside the Earth. With this knowledge, you manage
to traverse the crust easily. But it is the guardian who guides you
towards the mantle, a place where no man has gone before. He gives you a
bow and one glowing arrow. Before you, the TITAN wakes. Just before the
monster is able to bite, you manage to shoot it deep in the eye. It
bleeds and dies after an agonizing hour. The Earth is saved. Thankful
for the help, you ask your guardian for his name.

“Dr. Kite,” he replies.

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Wilson M. (2012). Igneous petrogenesis. Springer. pp.

3–12. ISBN 9789401093880.
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R.A. Strachan, N.H. Woodcock, in Encyclopedia of

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