EOSC 116 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Continental Crust, Oceanic Crust, Continental Drift
5 Jul 2016
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Eosc 116 the mesozoic earth module c (the tectonic engineering of the mesozoic earth) Earth history with an emphasis on the mesozoic. Plate tectonics is the grand unifying theory that explains the relationships btwn a wide variety of processes going on within the earth. The concept of plate tectonics grew from the theory of continental drift. 12 main plates, relatively large lithospheric plates these plates are moving across the surface of the earth in seemingly random directions and at different rates. Almost all earthquakes and most volcanoes occur where lithospheric plates interact with one another. Most of out main mineral and hydrocarbon resources occurs in very specific plate tectonic settings. Mountain belts and earthquake zones are located on active plate boundaries. Paleogeography: what the landforms looked like through time. What caused the landforms in western na to change so radically through the.
