GLG 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Suspended Load, Silt, Porosity
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It is the science that pursues an understanding of earth, its history, its components, and its physical and chemical characteristics. It states that the physical, chemical and biological laws that operate today also operated in the geologic past. It differs from catastrophism, which claims the earth has been changed by sudden, quick, violent events. The method used by scientists to test their hypothesis and validate their observations about the natural world, a hypothesis is an educated assumption of how the test will turn out. The theory that an incomprehensible explosion sent all known matter flying outward, cooled and developed into our universe. Nebular is the idea that all the bodies in the solar system evolved from an enormous rotating cloud of elements, gas, and dust. Inside to out: inner core, outer core, lower mantle (mesosphere), That the continents were all once is one supercontinent, The earth"s lithosphere is broken into rigid plates that float on the asthenosphere.
