ESS105H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Economic Geology, Kerogen, Zagros Mountains
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Economic geology: specialize in earth materials that can be used for economic and/or industrial purposes: these materials include precious and base metals, non-metallic minerals, construction-grade stone, oil and gas, coal, and water. There are 3 types of economic deposits: fossil fuels: mostly by sedimentary process with specifc deformation and metamorphic processes, nonmetallic minerals/gemstones, most gemstones by igenous processes. Evaporites and some construction materials by sedimentary (e. g. gypsum, limestones: precious or base metals: some igneous, some sedimentary, some metamorphic, some hydrothermal (and often combination) The geologic setting of arabian peninsula; compressional along collision boundary produces folds and faults, forming structures that trapped the world"s largest oil and resources in the zagros mountains and the arabian. Fossil fuels are buried combustible geologic deposits of hydrocarbon. Formed form organic materials, such as decayed plants and animals. Fossil fuels are converted to crude oil, coal, natural gas, or heavy oils by exposure to heat and pressure in the earth"s crust over millions of years.
