Endogenic Processes
Endogenic Processes
PROCESSES
Learning Objectives
Explain why Earth's interior is hot
Describe how magma is formed
Describe how rocks behave under different types of stress such
as compression, pulling apart, and shearing
Describe the changes in mineral components and texture of
rocks due to changes in pressure and temperature
Endogenic Process
The primary source is the heat produced inside the Earth.
Rayleigh waves
Elastic Strain
Stages of
Deformation
Elastic Deformation -
Reversible
Ductile Deformation -
Irreversible
Permanently Deformed -
Fractured
Rocks behavior under stress:
Brittle Materials
Have small region of ductile behavior
before fracture but could have small
or large region of elastic behavior.
Ductile Materials
Have large region of ductile
behavior prior to the stress but only
small region of elastic behavior.
STRUCTURES PRODUCED BY DEFORMATION
Strike is the compass direction of the line formed by the
intersection of an inclined plane and the horizontal plane.
Dip is the angle between the inclined plane and the horizontal
plane. The direction of dip is perpendicular to the strike.
Joints are natural cracks in
the rocks produced by
brittle deformation
Faults are also planar structures
resulting from brittle deformation, but
there is sliding between the rocks.
Monocline – is a bend in a
generally flat-lying rock layer.
02 Phase Change
Processes in the
transformation of 03 Neocrystallization
protolith:
04 Pressure solution
05 Plastic Deformation
Contact Metamorphism
The magma cools but the surrounding rock
heats up.
Metamorphism:
pressure increases due to the weight, and the
temperature also increases because of geothermal
gradient.
Shock Metamorphism
Extraterrestrial objects such as meteorite also
cause changes in the rocks at the surface of the
Earth.