GEOL 101 UOK Seismology Pacific Northwest Tectonic Movements Quiz 4 Discussion

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Geology 101, Fall 2020, Quiz 4 Due at 11:59 pm on Monday, Oct. 5 After reading the New Yorker article “The Really Big One” by Kathryn Schulz (available in the Course Documents folder on Bb), answer the following questions in your own words. 1. In three sentences, describe the plate tectonic setting in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. What type of plate boundary is this, and what are the names of the plates involved? What different types of geologic processes occur in this setting, and where are they happening exactly? (12 pts) 2. What exactly is “The Really Big One” that Schulz describes? What do scientists expect to happen, and where? What will cause the most damage, and why? (12 pts) 3. Kathryn Schulz gets much of the geology exactly correct in this article. Using what you know now, explain at least one thing that she gets wrong, or something that you found misleading. How would you correct this issue? (1 pt)
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Geology 101, Fall 2020, Quiz 4

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Geology 101, Fall 2020, Quiz 4

1. Direct results from the Pacific Northwest tectonic movements include the Olympic
Mountains, Willamette River Valley, Puget Sound lowlands, and the Cascade Mountains.
There is robust geological evidence that terrane accretion and plate conveyance occurred
during the Archean eon. The occurrence not only caused orge...


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