I hate "blinking text" but it did catch your attention. I am interested in finding out more about you and your backgrounds. Therefore, if you will complete the following Survey by the end of September, 2001, you will earn 10 points.
Each chapter in this Internet Resource Guide for Physical Geology begins with a link in the chapter title. These resources were chosen to provide broad overviews for the chapters.
You may wish to print a copy of the lecture outline (minus the illustrations) and you have two options:
Granites constitute (for the most part) the continental crust.
"a very hard natural igneous rock formation of visibly crystalline texture formed essentially of quartz and orthoclase or microcline and used for building and for monuments 2: unyielding firmness or endurance
[Why is granite like ice cream?]
Although not all meteorites are of igneous origin, many appear to have crystallized from a melt.
"The term meteor comes from the Greek meteoron, meaning phenomenon in the sky. It is used to describe the streak of light produced as matter in the solar system falls into Earth's atmosphere creating temporary incandescence resulting from atmospheric friction."
Your semester project involves the geology of the Cascade Mountains. Here is a place to get started.
"The town of Mount Airy is located in the northwestern part of North Carolina and is home to the largest open-faced quarry in the world. The North Carolina Granite Corporation has been quarrying white granite at this location since 1904, but the history of the quarry goes back even farther than that."
Learning about geology from a computer screen is only half as fun as enjoying it in the field!
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