GEO 1111 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Tectonic Uplift, Subduction, Pacific Plate

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Geology
• Course: GEO 1111
• Professor: Mark Charette

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A: slow steady rain on a steep slope. C: slow steady rain over heavily fractured bedrock, sudden thunderstorm in downtown core of large city intense short precipitation over saturated soil, geyser eruptions are due to: increase in pressure causing sudden vaporization of water. A: h2o + co2 h2co3, heating and expansion of groundwater, seismic tremors. Increased surface runoff: darcy"s law is useful to estimate fluid velocity in porous media the depth of the water table, water yield of a dry well. Tides are: either mixed, diurnal or semi-diurnal, not considered to be waves. C: they are bounded above and below my aquicludes. June 21st: which statement regarding mudflows is false, they flow more slowly than avalanches. C: they are usually confined to a channel. A: small, rectangular cross-section, small, oval, cross-section. D. large, semicircular cross section: a hurricane hits the east coast of florida.