Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Petroleum
Petroleum is a crude oil that is flammable. It's refined and separated most easily by boiling point. Its used in a large number of costumer products, from gasoline, kerosene to asphalt and chemical reagents there used to make plastic and other stuff. This word was first used in the treatise De Natura Fossilium, that was published in 1546 by a german mineralogist George Bauer.
Friday, October 29, 2010
5 classifications on Fossils
5 Classifications
1. Decaying or decomposing bones before rock forms around them.
2. The sticky sap that falls from trees trapping an insect of something in it that can't get out.
3.Rock forming minerals.
4. Plants or insects or other things get buried in mud or other sediments.
5. Trace fossils are the impressions of an animal or something left in rock
1. Decaying or decomposing bones before rock forms around them.
2. The sticky sap that falls from trees trapping an insect of something in it that can't get out.
3.Rock forming minerals.
4. Plants or insects or other things get buried in mud or other sediments.
5. Trace fossils are the impressions of an animal or something left in rock
Friday, September 17, 2010
Relative Dating Assignment
3 is the youngest because it intruded to the top.
1. because its a new layer of rock
6. Because its the 2nd newest layer of rock.
2. is the third youngest because its the neck of another thats intruding.
5. Its going upward to the top of the layers.
4. because its the oldest layer of rock out of all of them.
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