GEOL 1003 Lecture : Chpts 5 7 10 Book Notes
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They are isolated: atolls- circular of horseshoe-shaped structures, drilling in the vicinity of atolls is usually beneficial to the location of petroleum, carbonate platforms form in warm seas, stomatolites- knobby intertidal structures. Alive organisms that are produced by threadlike cyanobacteria. Usually occur in hypersaline waters: deep-sea environments, turbidity current- a flow of dense, sediment-charged water moving down a slope under the influence of gravity. Chapter 6: correlation and dating of the rock record: william smith- beginning of stratigraphy. Discovered that fossils could often be used to establish the relative ages of strata that lay far apart: boron georges currier- dealt with fossil succession. Loss of an alpha particle converts the parent isotope into the element whose nucleus contains 2 fewer protons: loss of a beta particle, a beta particle is an electron that has a negative charge but a negligible mass.
