Rainwater as a Chemical Agent of Geologic Processes A Review
Ch 2 geologic history and processes
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Chapter TwoGeologic History and Processes
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Plate Tectonics
• Divergent Boundaryo East Pacific Riseo Salton Trougho Cape Mendocino
• Convergent Boundaryo Cascades: Mt Shasta and Mt
Lasseno Historically: Sierra Nevada,
Coast Ranges, Klamath Mtns.• Transform Boundary
(“Sliding”)o San Andreas
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California Through the Ages
• Precambrian Era ends 540 mya• California’s oldest rocks 1.8 billion years
old• Crust under us 1.8 billion years old
oBasin and Range, Transverse Range, and deserts• Many younger intrusions
A nearly 3,000 meter-thick section of Paleozoic-age sedimentary rocks are exposed in the mountain ranges of the eastern Mojave Desert region. This view shows Paleozoic-age rocks exposed on the eastern flank of the Panamint Mountains in Death Valley National Park.
http://geomaps.wr.usgs.gov/socal/geology/geologic_history/index.html
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California Through the Ages
• San Gabriel Mountains• Metamorphic and igneous rocks• Complex geologic past
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California Through the Ages
• Proterozoic (late precambrian)• A sea covered California• Sediments were deposited
o Later igneous material intrudes
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California Through the Ages
• Roof Pendants abundant in Californiao Sierra Nevada’s, Inyo-White Mtns.
Hornfels, cherts, marbles, slates, and quartzites
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California Through the Ages
• Northern Californiao More volcanic material mixed with ocean
sedimentso Continental crust crushed together with ocean
crust
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California Through the Ages
• Southern Californiao Paleozoic rocks not as commono Some in the Ord Mountains, Eastern
Transverse Range, Peninsular Ranges Some gneiss and schist, Riverside limestone
quarried for cement
http://www.desertmuseum.org/programs/flw_mohave.php
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California Through the Ages
• Mesozoic Periodo Lots of subduction
going ono Results in mountain
buildingo Nevadan Orogenyo When the sea began
to disappear
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California Through the Ages
• Mesozoic Rocks Importanto Pre-Nevadan
roof pendantso Limestone, slate
• Cenozoic Basinso Filled with
sediments and eroded mesozoic rocks
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California Through the Ages
• Mesozoic periodo Granite plutons: Sierra Nevadas
and Cascadeso Franciscan Complex (Coast
Ranges) When sedimentary material was
brought to and crushed against the continent
Chert, serpentine, sandstone, shale
o Klamath Mountains: both plutons and schist from
being pushed against and onto the continental plate
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California Through the Ages
• California: 1.8 billion years of rocks• Impressive quantities of valuable minerals,
ores, and other earth resources.• Shaped history and still an import part of the
economy
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Gold, Silver, and Other Ores• In and near subduction zones, ocean and continental
crust materials incorporate into magmas.• This magma becomes granitic plutons.• As the magma is pushed towards the surface it comes
in contact with older sedimentary or metamorphic rocks.• As the magma cools, it squeezes into cracks and joints
forming veins.• Often it is the most felsic magma with the most minerals
that forms the veins.• High feldspar veins then cool and crystallize with
precious mineral deposits.
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Gold
• Placer Depositso Where veins have eroded into streams, rivers,
lakes, etc.• Mother Lode
o Principal zone of veins of gold or silvero Usually refers to California’s Sierra Nevada .7
mi wide, 120 mile long zone• Hydraulic Placer Mining
o Way of mining with high powered water spray
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Mix of Valuable Resources in the North
• Klamathso Chromium, cobalt,
nickel, zinc, copper, gravel, clay, limestone
• Shastao Pyrite, chalcopyrite,
sphalerite, magnetite, mercury
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Mines in Transmontane California
• Basin and Rangeo Today: talc, saline
mineralso Cerro Gordo
Silver, lead, zinco Bodie
gold
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Mining in the Mojave and Southern Deserts
• Rand Mining Districto Gold, silver,
tungsten, boron• Further South
o Gold, rare earth minerals, iron, limestone, magnetite, hematite, boron