GEOL 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Atlantic Ocean, Outer Core, Seafloor Spreading
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San andreas fault: a plate boundary between the. Two major cities on opposite sides of the fault: los. Angeles and san francisco (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Many major earthquakes related to the fault system. Loss of many lives and billions in property damage. * when living on top of a fault, you want multiple mini earthquakes. When the fault doesn"t move, it means the fault is storing energy. The longer the energy is being stored the worse the earthquake*- study (cid:1) * san andreas fault will always have earthquakes until the faults change * (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Lithosphere (sphere of stone; rigid), asthenosphere (superstar, play-dough like) mesosphere ( floor between floors ), outer core ( liquid) and inner core (deeper you go the hotter it gets, and becomes has/more dense elements) Knowledge primarily through the study of (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) seismology (cid:1) Seismology: study of earthquake and seismic waves (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1)
