EESA06H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: North Anatolian Fault, Igneous Rock, Flood Basalt
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I"m sorry that today"s lecture notes are a bit late. The life cycle of ocean basins: 1. Rift basin and flood basalts: rift basins is the crack in a continental plate. Igneous dikes: dikes are the passage way that the great hot magma flows out from. Triple junction and failed rifts": failed rifts are still moving but just enough to create earthquakes. Homo habilis the first hominin (c. 2. 0 million years ago: handy man (first one to make tools) Erte ale shield volcano in the afar triangle of ethiopia. North anatolian fault (naf) in turkey: cascading earthquakes", seismic gaps". P: what you can take away from all of this is that, what happens in the earth surface is controlled by what happens in the mantle. I"ll expect you to take some time to go through fig. As you can see, a lot of california is going to end up in canada.
