Physical Geology Syllabis

Let me hear ya, now, I don't know,
I don't know, I don't know,
Where I'm a-gonna
When the volcano blow!
Now my girl quickly said to me
Mon you better watch your feet.
Lava come down soft and hot.
You better lov'a me now or lov'a me not.

- Jimmy Buffet ("Volcano")


Key words or concepts:
Rocks
Igneous
Sedimentary
Metamorphic
Continental versus Oceanic Crust
Environments
Volcanic (extrusive)
Plutonic (intrusive)
Compositions
Continental
Composite
Oceanic
Igneous rocks:
rhyolite
granite
andesite
diorite
basalt
gabbro
pumice
obsidian
types of volcanoes
shield
composite
pyroclastic
kimberlites

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