Geomorphology Rules
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Geomorphology Rules
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Like some science with your scenery? Posts by Prof K. Nicoll at Univ UT
WEATHER is a geomorphic agent!! NOAA Satellite image of the bomb cyclone hitting the west coast 11/20/2024 #geomorphologyrules
November 20, 2024 at 9:47 PM
Faults -- places in the crust where brittle deformation occurs as 2 blocks of rocks move relative to one another. Normal faults form when the hanging wall moves down relative to the footwall.

Credit: SLCC via OpenGeology
November 20, 2024 at 9:38 PM
Fault scarp in Italy’s Apennine Mountains, surface-rupturing & normal faulting, formed during the complex 2016 Amatrice-Norcia earthquake sequence.
Photo: Maxine Gordano
November 20, 2024 at 1:25 PM
Major John Wesley Powell talking to a Paiute Indian, northern Arizona Survey, Arizona. circa 1869.
November 20, 2024 at 1:14 PM