Geologic Scavenger Hunt
By Joshua Clary
Drought
The Atacama Desert is in a 400 year long drought located in Chile in South American. The Desert typically gets rain every 100 years. The cold air that is in the desert has little to no moisture which could lead to not the drought. The temperature rarely rises above 26C in this desert.
Wind Erosion
Areas that have lose soil and sand are most likely to be affected my wind erosion. Places like deserts that have lose sand are vulnerable to erosion due to the wind picking up the sand and throwing it against rock creating different formations.
River Deltas
A river delta is where a river deposits the sediment it has picked up over time created different land forms.
This is Vienna, Austria Delta.
Below is Skokomish River.
River Meandering
Meandering is the change in the rivers course causing bends.
Sacramento River, CA
Meandering River in northern Owens Valley, CA
Chippewa River. Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
Oxbow Lakes
They are the result of River Meandering.
Early stages of formation of coastal plain ox-bow lake. Pembrokeshire, UK
Wee Tee Lake, Santee River valley, South Carolina
Baltoro Glacier
It is located in Baltistan, in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan.
Harker Glacier
Located in the Antarctic.
Landslides
On November 10, 2009 there was a landslide in Tennessee on highway 64. Lucky there was a geologist on site that was able to see the signs of a land slide and move everybody out of the way of any danger.
Volcanoes
Mount Vesuvius located in southern Italy. It has erupted over 30 times that we know of all the way back to 79 A.D.
Krakatoa
located in Indonesian island of Krakatoa it has erupted with 13,000 times the power of an atomic bomb. It occasionally spits lava into the sky to this day.
Dormant Volcanoes
Mount Fuji
Located in japan is the highest elevation of japan. The last eruption was in 1708.
Mauna Kea
Last erupted about 4,500 years ago. Located on the island of Hawaii.
Extinct Volcanoes
Mount Shasta
Located in California Mount Shasta last eruption was about 200 years ago. The shape of the peak is Cascade Volcanic Arc.
Sara Sara volcano
located in Peru the last eruption was less that 10,000 years ago.
Citations
http://www.kidzworld.com/article/1103-extreme-climates-1-driest-place
http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-wind-erosion.html
http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-wind-erosion.html
http://www.landgovernance.org/events/sustainable-management-of-river-deltas-under-pressure/
http://pages.uoregon.edu/millerm/meander.html
http://www.bgs.ac.uk/discoveringGeology/hazards/landslides/world.html
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2014572_2014574_2014635,00.html