What does the esplanade layer or the first layer

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Questions: This final project will hopefully be a slightly entertaining one, you will be watching a video that is around 54 mins long. This is found for free on the PBS website and are linked below.

Making North America: Origins

While watching the video, please answer 10 of the following 14 questions. These questions should require a 2 to 3 sentence answer that you will also provide

What does the Esplanade layer or the first layer discussed tell geologist about the Earth's past? Why do you think this important to know and how does it change as you move down the canyon to the next layer?
What is the bottom layer of the Grand Canyon? How old is it? Is this the oldest rock in North America?
What did early Earth look like? What was happening to the Earth during this time?
Why does the host Kirk go to Mt. Kilauea? Why is it interesting/important to geologist?
How does the first rocks/land masses that are made of the mafic igneous rock basalt end up creating continents that are mostly made up of the felsic igneous rock granite? How does this relate to what you have learned this semester in this class?
Why is it important that we min palladium? Why is Kirk more interested in the rock that surrounds the palladium?
What do the rocks near Gooseberry Falls located in Minnesota indicate? What type of rock is her and how does the scientist Emily know how deep these rocks go?
What is the significance of the large 'scar' that is present across the Midwest of the North American continent?
What is shist and how does it form? What is this process called? Why is it so important to New York City and how it is configured?
What are the Taconic mountains and why have not many people heard about them? How do they relate to plate tectonics?
If you were at Zion National Park 200 million years ago, what type of environment would you be standing in? How do we know this? Why are the circle formations in this sand so interesting to sedimentologists?
What is the principal that Kirk discusses when flying the drone above the sandstone? (Hint: it is not explicitly mentioned in the video but was discussed in the Geologic Time readings.) How does this relate to the building of the Rocky Mountains?
Why is the fossil find in Alaska so significant? How does this fossil tie into the plate tectonic history of North America?
What are some pieces of evidence that geologist have that the tectonic plates are actively moving? Be specific with the examples.

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