Submit the rough draft of your geology project. Included in yourrough draft should be the text as close as possible to the way youintend on submitting it as well as data tables and rough sketches offigures.
Proofread everything and check your work according to the Evaluation guidelines in the original assignment in Week 02.
GEOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES
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Damaris Rodriguez
Rasmussen Colleges
Geological principles
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Tentative Topic Areas
Some of the ideas that come into my mind about geological topics base on the concept of
mountain formation. Such a notion accompanies geological approaches and the principle behind
the layers of rocks that creates a mountain and how to determine the age of rocks (See, 2016).
Some of the questions include, what chemical or physical activities led to the formation of the
stones? And what temperatures lead to eruption? To gain an insight into the landscape formation
is no simple task. There should be different principles evident for us to have the full information
of a mountain structure. Just like the arrangements of sedimentary rocks, the rock composition
has differentiation. With research evidence and physical geographical observation will lead us to
understand all these.
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References
See, T. J. J. (2016). Cause of Earthquakes, Mountain Formation And Kindred
Phenomena Connected With The Physics Of… The Earth (Classic Reprint). S.L.: Forgotten
Books.
MOUNT ADAGDAK
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Damaris Rodriguez
Rasmussen Colleges
Mount Adagdak
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Physical and chemical properties that led to formation of Mount Adagdak
The volcano of the mountain is made up from three different periods of explosion
activity. In this mountain, argon is the youngest rock and is estimated to be between 204,000 to
2218,000 years old. In this topic, I will try to find the physical and chemical activities that led to
the formation of Mount Adagdak (Tibaldi, & Bonali, 2017). There will also be focus on the
rocks that make up the mountain and the process through which they were formed. It has been
discovered that John Hunter had proposed that Adagdak Mountain should be used as an
emplacement site where small payloads would be launched so that they would be used at ISS
(Shevenell et al. 2015).
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References
Tibaldi, A., & Bonali, F. L. (2017). Intra-arc and back-arc volcano-tectonics: Magma pathways
at Holocene Alaska-Aleutian volcanoes. Earth-science reviews, 167, 1-26.
Shevenell, L., Coolbaugh, M., Hinz, N., Stelling, P., Melosh, G., & Cumming, W.
(2015). Geothermal Potential of the Cascade and Aleutian Arcs, with Ranking of Individual
Volcanic Centers for their Potential to Host Electricity-Grade Reservoirs (No. DE-EE0006725).
ATLAS Geosciences, Inc., Reno, NV (United States).
1. Mountain building and determining the age of rocks. Is there a particular mountain anywhere
on Earth that would interest you? You could incorporate geologic time here as well.
2. Chemical and physical activities that led to formation of stones. Is there a particular type of
rock you would like to focus on (sedimentary, igneous, metamorphic)? Or a mountain that you
could focus on and discuss it’s physical and chemical make up?
I would suggest talking about the ‘type of rocks formed’ first. This would set the stage to then
diver deeper in to details about individual aspects of Mount Adagdak.