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Hi, I'm [Joshua], a [Wise man ] from [Apple Valley].

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Initial Reflection

My knowledge on geology is very limited, I remember being taught a whole lot but can’t remember it all since 5th grade. But what I do know is that Earth is the only planet with oxygen since we are the only life form we know of yet. Plus it spins around the sun everyday in the year, seasons change after three months, and both the north and south hemisphere have opposite seasons throughout the year. There are ten plate tectonics and as time passes they move which causes earthquakes. The three types of rocks are sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous, but sadly I can't explain all types of formations. And as far as geologic deep time, the geologic chart, map scale and locations goes I don’t know diddly squat.

Now for my personal plans in this class would definitely be to learn more about everything I don’t know like weather, formation of rocks, plants, and landscape. But specifically I would like to learn why weather patterns are the way they are. My realistic grade for this class would be an A because I would like to redo my wrongs by doing better than what I did in elementary school by actually learning the material instead of just learning it to get it done. One of the ways to help myself learn and obtain all the knowledge I need is to have a notebook and divide it into different sections so that if there is anything I need help with, I have a resource to go back to. In this class I am looking forward to working with our groups because this is all gonna be a fun ride working together.

https://sites.google.com/view/geologymanisgoodcom/home "Personal Discussion video "

Top 10 reasons why San Andreas isn't scientifically accurate to real life. SLO 1 Evidence

10. It showed that the entire fault line went into an earthquake when really it was only pieces of the fault that had an earthquake at different points in time.

9. San Fransisco didn't completely fall into the surface of the earth only a chunk of the building were destroyed

8. The earthquake of the fault line couldn't create a tsunami because the earthquake didn't happen in the pacific

7. Earthquakes are possible in the San Andreas fault but they would hit so hard that it would create canyons with in minutes it would take years and multiple earthquakes for that to actually happen

6. The hoover damn is so strong that if an earthquake did happen next to it, the damn would only crack not explode because of the architecture of how it is built.

5. A Nevada earthquake could cause a Los Angeles earthquake but it can't be the other way around

4. San Francisco would not split in half because the cracks caused by the earthquake wouldn't spread as far as a mile long it would take time for that to happen and that would at least take a couple thousand years to happen.

3. If an earthquake happened that bad as it did in the movie the tsunami would have to be created by like two atom bombs for it to destroy the Golden Gate Bridge.

2. An earthquake is able to shake large objects such as building but powerful enough to collapse buildings into the ground.

The odds of even another earth quake happening in San Andreas Fault is in the next 300 years and that most recent one happened in 1857 which was 130 years ago.

Cites

https://www.usgs.gov/natural-hazards/earthquake-hazards/science/back-future-san-andreas-fault?qt-science_center_objects=0#qt-science_center_objects

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-g-san-andreas-earthquake-20150528-htmlstory.html

https://www.earthquakecountry.org/sanandreas/#:~:text=The%20San%20Andreas%20fault%20cannot,as%20depicted%20in%20the%20movie.&text=Local%20tsunamis%20might%20be%20generated,on%20a%20smaller%20offshore%20fault.

Minerals SLO 2

Minerals are everywhere, they are on the food we eat, the building we work in, the tools we use, and even the makeup people put on their face.

For example the most used and beautiful mineral that is commonly seen for fancy occasions, the diamond, which are formed from underneath the surface over thousands of years by naturalized carbon structure combined with heat and pressure but are only found by volcanic eruptions and mining underground. Plus interestingly enough if you through a diamond back in to lava it wouldn't melt because that is where they were created from. However diamonds and graphite have the exact same element composition but just have different crystal structure.

https://www.diamondnexus.com/blog/how-diamonds-are- made/#:~:text=A%20mined%2C%20natural%20diamond%20is,then%20mined%20from%20the%20land.

Another interesting thing I learned about minerals that they are formed in the same way, it is all the cooling of magma that reaches the surface of the earth.

If the magma cools down quickly then the crystal is smaller, but as the magma takes longer to cool then the crystal is larger.

Plus that vast majority of minerals that can be found in most rocks are Quartz, Feldspar, Mica, Amphibole, Pryoxene, Olivine, and Clay.

Sources

https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/what-difference-between-rock-and-mineral#:~:text=A%20mineral%20is%20a%20naturally,amphibole%2C%20olivine%2C%20and%20calcite.

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