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What is one major tectonic event that characterizes the late Carboniferous period?
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What is the difference between a tectonic hazard and a tectonic event?
a tectonic hazard is a disaster caused by the moving of tectonic plates.....anda tectonic activity is the moving of tectonic plates........
Which event occurs during phosphate?
Phosphate is not a period of time during which an event can occur.
What ended the Jurassic period?
The end of the Silurian period and the beginning of the Devonian period was not defined by an extinction event, but by the distinctive rock formations of the period. As a result the end of the Silurian period is uncertain by +/- 2.8 million years.
What was the major geologic event during the Jurassic time period?
your mama was born
What weather event is easiest to predict?
When there's a high ridge of pressure in the area for some period of time.
Which significant event in evolution occurred during the Carboniferous period?
Reptiles evolved from amphibians
Is a bush fire a tectonic event?
No it is not.
What is the difference between a tectonic hazard and a tectonic event?
a tectonic hazard is a disaster caused by the moving of tectonic plates.....anda tectonic activity is the moving of tectonic plates........
What has the author W Bruce Saunders written?
W. Bruce Saunders has written: 'The mid-carboniferous eustatic event'
Which expression best characterizes the image being cast on the retina?
That is the initiating event of vision.
How do you spell earthquack?
An "earthquake" is a tectonic event (it has nothing to do with ducks).
Geologic events of the Carboniferous period?
== == The Carboniferous Period occurred from about 354 to 290 million years ago during the late Paleozoic Era. The term "Carboniferous" comes from England, in reference to the rich deposits of coal that occur there. These deposits of coal occur throughout northern Europe, Asia, and midwestern and eastern North America. The term "Carboniferous" is used throughout the world to describe this period, although this period has been separated into the Mississippian (Lower Carboniferous) and the Pennsylvanian (Upper Carboniferous) in the United States. This system was adopted to distinguish the coal-bearing layers of the Pennsylvanian from the mostly limestone Mississippian, and is a result of differing stratigraphy on the different continents. ---- Carboniferous Forest : The Carboniferous Period is famous for its vast coal swamps, such as the one depicted here. Such swamps produced the coal from which the term "Carboniferous", or "carbon-bearing" comes. ---- In addition to having the ideal conditions for the beginnings of coal, several major biological, geological, and climatic events occurred during this time. One of the greatest evolutionary innovations of the Carboniferous was the amniote egg, which allowed for the further exploitation of the land by certain tetrapods. The amniote egg allowed the ancestors of birds, mammals, and reptiles to reproduce on land by preventing the desiccation of the embryo inside. There was also a trend towards mild temperatures during theCarboniferous, as evidenced by the decrease in lycopods and large insects and an increase in the number of tree ferns. Geologically, the Late Carboniferous collision of Laurussia (present-day Europe and North America) into Godwanaland (present-day Africa and South America) produced the Appalachian mountain belt of eastern North America and the Hercynian Mountains in the United Kingdom. A further collision of Siberia and eastern Europe created the Ural Mountains. The stratigraphy of the Lower Carboniferous can be easilydistinguished from that of the Upper Carboniferous. The environment of the Lower Carboniferous in North America was heavily marine, when seas covered parts of the continents. As a result, most of the mineral found in Lower Carboniferous is limestone, which are composed of the remains of crinoids, lime-encrusted green algae, or calcium carbonate shaped by waves. The North American Upper Carboniferous environment was alternately terrestrialand marine, with the transgression and regression of the seas caused by glaciation. These environmental conditions, with the vast amount of plant material provided by the extensive coal forests, allowed for the production of coal. Plant material did not decay when the seas covered them and pressure and heat eventually built up over the millions of years to transform the plant material to coal. ---- ---- Subdivisions of theCarboniferous: The chart at left shows the major subdivisions of the Carboniferous Period.The Lower Carboniferous of Europe corresponds roughly to the Mississippian of North America, and the Middle and Upper Carboniferous are roughly equivalent to the Pennsylvanian. This chart is mapped, to allow you to travel back to the Devonian orforward to the Permian. The Carboniferous Period is part of thePaleozoic Era. ----
This is a geologic event that occurs when tectonic plates are displaced violently?
earthquake
Why did the placoderms go extinct?
Placoderms appeared in the fossil register during the Silurian period, and all placoderms (including the nightmarish Dunkleosteus terrelli) went extinct on the Late Devonian extinction.On the Carboniferous period there were already no placoderm fishes in the oceans.This Paleozoic era extinction(s) is not yet fully understood.However, the extinction of many marine life families in the Devonian/Carboniferous mass extinction, during the Frasnian/Famennian stages and specially the Kellwasser event, was due to the widespread oceanic anoxia.Few other reliable paleontologic data is known.
What name is given to the release of energy associated with the formation of geological features such as x-y?
If the release of energy is associated with a tectonic plate, the event is called a tectonic earthquake.
What is the number of times an event or value occurs in a given period?
The frequency of the event over that time period.
What destructive event can be triggered by an earthquake?
seiemic vibrations, s and p wave and the tectonic plate boundaries
