Done in class...
- Mid-Atlantic Ridge
- fifteen times three minus five
- thousand miles long... yay!
Myca Scaife, 4/8/09
via E-mail shortly after class:
- mountains have limits
- they collapse from gravity
- and spread themselves thin
- ocean tsunami
- drowning the land with her tears
- leaving us breathless
- earthquakes shake the land
- we may run but we cant hide
- (except under desks)
- decaying atoms
- radioactivity
- determines rock age
Kathryn Kessab, 4/8/09
my response to her:
- Wow! Rapid response!
- Not only quick, but superb!
- Twenty points, for sure!
PTF, 4/8/09
and her response to my response:
- thank you very much
- for the extra credit points
- See you on tuesday (Monday?)
KK, 4/8/09
these just in:
- Weathering a rock,
- Disintegration and/or
- Decomposition.
- Relative dating
- Law of Superposition,
- Nicolaus Steno.
- Earth deformation,
- occurs along plate margins
- involves force and stress.
- The San Andreas,
- the most studied fault in world,
- exhibits fault creep.
Cooper Soehl, 4/9/09
on Monday:
- volcano erupts
- spitting molten rock and flames
(NOT!)
- destruction ensues
- follows weathering
- mass wasting moves sediment
- downstream - forms deltas
- go see the seashore
- water line will rise and fall
- ancient layers seen
Ashley Rork, 4/13/09
more from Monday:
- sudden plate rupture
- it could happen tomorrow
- earthquake disaster
- stored energy
- along existing fault lines
- slips and causes quake
- burning hot magma
- comes from active volcanoes
- all in its path melts
- slopes are most common
- mud shoots down them very fast
- mass wasting can kill
Paul Wildenthaler, 4/13/09
here are seven really good ones:
- Manganese nodules
- Scattered on the ocean floor
- Where do they come from?
- Tanya Atwater
- Diving in a submarine
- Like going to Mars!
- Alvin helps explore
- Unusual forms of life
- At boiling hot vents
- Hydrogen sulphide
- Used by bacteria feeds
- Denizens of deep
- Was a mystery...
- Why do tectonic plates move?
- Convection currents!
- The earth splits open
- At the mid-ocean ridges
- Out pours hot basalt
- Granite and greenstones
- Forming Canadian Shield
- Metamorphic rock
Shirley Modine, 4/13/09
one more from Shirley, "Haiku on you!"
- Geology guy
- Who loves to talk rocks all day
- That's Phil Farquharson!
Shirley Modine, 4/15/09
submited on Wednesday:
- Continental drift
- Mantle material swells
- Ridge spreads unhurried
- Altering textures
- Silicate minerals form
- Cooling molten rock
- Hot viscous magmas
- Charged gases quickly expand
- Pulverized fragments
- Decomposing rock
- Breaking down chemically
- Earth's surface changes
Netanya Nicholson, 4/15/09
end of Wednesday class:
- pyroclastic flows
- incredibly dangerous
- Run away FASTER!
- weathering sandstone
- coarse-grained material
- found at the seaside
- manganese nodules
- created under great depths
- Glomar Explorer?
- fault zone underneath
- N.A.S. North Island base
- future danger zone
Nathan Smith, 4/15/09
and finally, on Earth Day:
- today is Earth Day
- wide mountains and tall trees live
- land thrives from the Sun
- falls of avalanche
- rip from the sky to the Earth
- rocks of destruction
- landscape of crystals
- icy sheets, vivid and sharp
- melting icebergs lay
- Earth's isolation
- planets of the Universe
- surround Earth with time
Savannah Winans, 4/22/09
but wait! there's more:
- P-waves and S-waves
- large vibration of the Earth
- come without warning
- downslope movement
- under work of gravity
- mass wasting occurs
- man-made levees
- on Mississippi River
- shrinking the wetlands
- Phil's sixteenth birthday
- rock moves along curved surface
- slump in LaJolla
Alyssa Hobbs, 4/27/09
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