GEO 1111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Seismic Hazard, Deccan Traps, Plate Tectonics

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Geology
• Course: GEO 1111
• Professor: David Schneider

Document Summary

Ottawa is in the middle of the plate margins. Volcanic activity is an alleged reason to why there is so much earthquake activity. Facts: certain animals have certain behavioural queues before earthquakes happen. Science of the solid earth: earth is a system, large spacial scales and complex systems, experiments are very difficult and almost impossible, large timescales (ms to billions of years, geological evidence is fragmented/incomplete. Geological processes and natural laws that happen today have been the same all across geologic time. The nature of science: science assumes that the natural world is predictable and consistent, we can explain methods and data by: Inductive method: random data collection, p. ex: on campus looking for how many people are wearing a blue shirt. Iridium: found in core of earth or lava, meteorites/comets. Sulfur: found in evaporate and carbonate terrain (meteors or volcanoes, secretion of sulfur by volcanoes.