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Formation of the Great LakesFormation of the Great LakesPart 1Part 1
Precambrian GeologyPrecambrian Geology
History Channel VideoHistory Channel Video
Chapter 2 in GradyChapter 2 in Grady
Chapter 2 in GreenbergChapter 2 in Greenberg
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Geological Time LineGeological Time Line
Great Lakes are recent features of the North America Continent, BUT
Their geological foundation was laid down over 3 billion years ago
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Geological Time LineGeological Time Line The Great Lakes: three important events
Great Lakes Basin formed When: 3 billion years ago
How: Volcanism and crustal plate activity
Individual Lake Basins formed When: 10 thousand years ago
How: Glacial activity
Current shorelines formed When: 3 thousand years ago
How: Changes in water levels
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Geological Time Line Time hierarchy
Eons
Eras
Periods
Epochs
Stages
The Geologic Time Line - see handouts
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eraera eraeon
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Geological Time Line
Geologic time is divided into Precambrian Time
Before Cambrian (<570 mya) Life is mostly microscopic single celled
organisms
Phanerozoic Time Cambrian era and after Visible life (>570 mya)
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Geological Time Line
Divisions of geologic time are based on the fossil content of rocksFormation of earth ~ 4.6 bya
Origin of life ~ 3.6 bya
Early Precambrian rocks contain few fossils –so decay rates of radioactive isotopes are used to age rocks
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Coal forests in
Illinois
This layer is missing in GLB
Glaciers carved out GL
basins
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Radioactive elements decay, releasing particles and energy.
High energy particles may damage living cells or DNA.
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Radioactive decay occurs at a constant exponential or geometric rate. The rate of decay is proportional to the number of parent atoms present
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Most minerals which contain radioactive isotopes are in igneous rocks. The dates they give indicate the time elapsed since the magma cooled.
Uranium and Phosphorus most common.
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Half Lives for Radioactive Elements
Radioactive Parent
Stable Daughter
Half life
Potassium 40
Argon 40 1.25 billion yrs
Rubidium 87Strontium 87
48.8 billion yrs
Thorium 232 Lead 208 14 billion years
Uranium 235 Lead 207704 million years
Uranium 238 Lead 2064.47 billion years
Carbon 14Nitrogen 14
5730 years
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Building the Great Lakes
Three time periods are importantPrecambrian Eon
Paleozoic Era
Pleistocene Era
Processes involvedshifting bedrocksedimentationmovements of ice, water, and wind (erosion)
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Cambrian
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Building the Great Lakes Precambrian
Bedrock of GLB formed over 3 bya Volcanic activity, uplift, erosion
Paleozoic Central North America experienced repeated
transgressions and regressions of shallow, tropical seas Large areas of tropical coral reefs deposited layers of
materials that became sedimentary rocks Pleistocene
Series of glacial advances and retreats 10-6 kya Most of the topography we see around us is due to
glacial activity
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Anatomy of Planet Earth
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Anatomy of Planet Earth
Earth made of layers of varying densities
Inner core makes one more rotation than the crust every 400 years
Spins like a poorly balanced top – wobbles on its axis
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Tectonic Plates
Lithosphere and crust broke into large irregular chunks
Float on sluggish molten rock of asthenosphere and drift about freely
Collided and moved apart many times
Process continues today
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Diverging Plates
Where plates pull apart, hot molten rock (fluid magma) emerges as lava New matter is added to the plates New oceanic plates are formed
The place where this happens is known as a mid-ocean ridge. Beneath each of the world's great oceans there is a
mid-ocean ridge. Mid-ocean ridges are areas of much volcanic and
seismic activity.
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The Growing Atlantic
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Converging Plates
Huge plates of the earth's surface are slowly moving together Edge of one plate is gradually destroyed by
the force of collisionsometimes the impact simply crimps the
plates' edges, thereby creating great mountain ranges: process = orogeny.
When one tectonic plate bends beneath the other, it is called subduction.
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Splitting Plates
A Rift or chasm is a place where the Earth's crust and lithosphere are being pulled apart
Two rifts important in GL history Mid-Continent Rift Saint Lawrence Rift
These rifts are responsible for the great depths of Lakes Superior and Ontario Deep valleys formed as tectonic plates pulled apart Valleys are now deepest regions of these two lakes
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Midcontinent Rift
1.1 to 1.2 billion years ago two previously fused tectonic plates split apart and created the Midcontinent Rift.
A valley was formed providing a basin that eventually became modern day Lake Superior.
Rocks rich in copper and silver in Michigan’s UP
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Saint Lawrence Rift Saint Lawrence rift, formed
around 570 million years ago Extends more than 1000 km
along the Saint Lawrence valley from the Ottawa - Montreal area
Seismically active area 5 magnitude >6 earthquakes
in 350 year record most recent earthquake in
1925 Created basins for Lakes Ontario
and Erie, along with what would become the St. Lawrence River.
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Cratons
The oldest parts of the continental crust, known as 'shields' or 'cratons', include some rocks that are nearly 4 billion years old. Cratons are made up of a shield-like core of
Precambrian Rock and a buried extension of the shield.
They form the relatively stable nucleus of a continent.
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600 million years ago
Laurentian Plateau or the North American Precambrian Shield are both geological terms for the North American Craton.
USA - Precambrian Shield
Canada – Canadian Shield
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Geological Provinces for the Great Lakes Region Provinces are geological landforms in
which all rock types are alikeCanadian Shield Craton made up of three
geological provinces Superior Uplands Province Southern Province Grenville Province
The Central Lowlands Province contains the lower midwest USA region of the GLB.
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Geological Provinces for the Great Lakes Region Superior Uplands (N and NW)
Metamorphic rocks and granite
Formed 4.5-2.5 bya
Resources: Precambrian sedimentary iron ore deposits and copper
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Geological Provinces for the Great Lakes Region Southern Province
Joined Superior Province 2.5 bya Sedimentary rocks: limestone, shale,
sandstone Metamorphic forms of these
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Geological Provinces for the Great Lakes Region
Grenville Province Joined 1.8 bya when
Canadian shield collided with South America and West Africa
This huge mass became the supercontinent Rodinia
Grenville Orogeny – impact formed mountain range
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Geological Provinces for the Great Lakes Region
Grenville Orogeny 2 belts of rock types
Central Gneiss Belt Gneiss with granite bodies
called plutons Central Metasedimentary
Belt Marble Volcanic rock Other metamorphosed
sedimentary rocks
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Geological Provinces for the Great Lakes Region Grenville Orogeny
Formed along eastern coastline from Canada to Texas and Mexico
Mountains produced: Appalachians Adirondacks
Also formed the well-studied Grenville Province of Canada
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Geological Provinces for the Great Lakes Region Central Lowlands (upper Midwest)
Mostly sedimentary rock (limestone and dolomite) over Precambrian igneous rock
Resources: coal, gas, oil and oil shale, gold, and lots of other minerals
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Superior Uplands = 10
Central Lowlands = 11
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From The Great Lakes: an Environmental Atlas and Resource Book
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Canadian Shield RockCanadian Shield Rock