ESCI 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cambrian Explosion, Hydrosphere, Lithosphere
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Interconnected components: these components all interact with each other. Biosphere forests, life as we know it. Most of class is past 530 m. a. (million years ago) cambrian explosion life erupted on earth. Preservation bias earth is constantly recycling itself. We have to have something to study rocks. There are scraps of ancient continents to help figure out how the earth was in the beginning. Our solar system is 4 x 109 km radius. Dune field vs sand ripple are the same but different scales.