Your project is to be an original 7-10 page research paper based on a comprehensive outline. (If your Instructor has approved a different format for your project, please discuss requirements as early as possible.) Your task is to prepare an outline as seen here – and then develop your paper from the outline:

Title Page – Captivating title, your name, title of the course, date

Body of Paper – 7-10 pages in length (including any illustrations). Here is a rough outline that you can adapt or follow:

1. Introduction – introduce topic- . Bring focus to your study through dramatic opening, leading into thesis statement. Your thesis is your hypothesis – the main point you want to make about a geologic principle.
2. First Point coming out of thesis statement
   1. Support #1 from research
   2. Support #2 from research
   3. Personal observation, backed by facts/text passages
   4. Transition to next point.
3. Second Point coming out of thesis statement
   1. Support #1 from research
   2. Support #2 from research
   3. Personal opinion, backed by facts/text passages
   4. Transition to next point.
4. Third Point coming out of thesis statement
   1. Support #1 from research
   2. Support #2 from research
   3. Personal opinion, backed by facts/text passages
   4. Transition to conclusion.
5. Conclusion – restate thesis (hypothesis) and close with striking point or quotation.

References page – in APA format.

Submit your geology project thesis and outline by the end of this week. (Refer to your original project assignment in Week 02, which provides a model outline.) Your thesis or hypothesis, the concept that you are interested in testing, should be provided as a sentence at the beginning of your outline. Your instructor will use your outline to evaluate your progress and current understanding of your topic.Meanwhile, keep researching and writing paragraphs on your paper. You can adjust these as you receive feedback from your Instructor  I have attach my topic and what I want to discuss

Running head: Earthquake/Tectonic Earthquake 1

Earthquake 2

Earthquake/Tectonic Earthquake

John Blair

Rasmussen College

Author Note

This paper is being submitted on January 20, 2017 for John Blair G245 Introduction to Geology course.

Tentative Topic Area

In this paper I will discuss earthquake site and the tectonic earthquake. Earthquake is most terrible natural occurrences, which can cause great amount of damage to the areas that it occur in. Earthquake is ground shaking caused by sudden and rapid movement of one block of rock slipping past another along fractures in the Earth’s crust which are called faults. I choose earthquake site because I am able to learn about how earthquakes sites tend to occur along preexisting faults where external stresses cause crustal rocks to rupture into two are more units (An Introduction to physical Geology pg.329). The earthquake that I will focus on in this paper is a tectonic earthquake is one that occurs when the earth’s crust breaks due to geological forces on rocks and adjoining plates that cause physical and chemical changes (Types of earthquakes & Faults. The geologist I would consider, superposition which states the sediment in deposited in upward stacking layers like a brick wall withholder layer being on the bottom and new additions made to the top (6 Main principle of relative time). Individuals have to be prepared when an earthquake occur and also know how to position their selves. These earthquake will help individuals to learn about effective they can be and are.

References

6 Main Principle of Relative Time (12 January 2017) Retrieved from www.cas.miamioh.edu

Tarbuck, E. J., Lutgens, F. K., and Tasa, D. (2017). Earth: An Introduction to Physical Geology. (12th Ed.)[Vitalsource edition]. Retrieved from http://online. vitalsource.com/books/9781323173459/epubcfi/6/74

Types of Earthquake and Faults (20 January 2017) Retrieved from http://people.uwec.edu/jolhm/EH/Toivonen/types.htm