Geology Lab Final
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- rock material that can be extracted profitably with existing technology and under present economic and legal conditions
- ore
- Name the four types of mining.
- open stoping, cut and fill, block caving, and room & pillar
- occurs when a fault crosses an anticline when there is impermeable rock opposite and above the reservoir rock
- fault trap
- Give the rule in exploration.
- Find a source, a reservoir, and a trap.
- energy originating from deep within the earth.
- geothermal energy
- energy produced by the burning of biomass like organic wastes, forests, and energy crops.
- biomass energy
- the division a heavy element into 2 lighter elements
- nuclear fission
- the combination of two lighter elements into one heavy element, simultaneously releasing energy
- nuclear fusion
- the raw materials from which goods are produced
- commodities (agricultural and mineral)
- the ratio of the volume of interstices of a material to the volume of its mass
- porosity
- the ability to transmit fluids
- permeability
- a source of supply or support
- resource
- a naturally occurring inorganic substance
- mineral
- Name 5 properties of minerals.
- color, luster, hardness, cleavage, streak, density, opacity,fracture
- a concreted composition of minerals
- rock
- the process by which rocks are decomposed by chemical processes
- chemical weathering
- the process by which rocks are decomposed by physical forces
- physical weathering
- the combition of water the is evaporated and transpired by plants
- evapotranspiration
- a volume of water that passes a given point in unit time
- stream flow
- all water sources located on the surface of the earth
- surface water
- all water sources below ground surface
- ground water
- Impermeable rocks or structures that block the flow of oil and force it to accumulate into larger bodies.
- oil trap
- occurs when a permeable sandstone or limestone pinches out updip into impermeable rock
- pinchout oil trap