EESA06H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: White Sands, New Mexico, Igneous Rock, Cubic Centimetre
4 Apr 2018
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Lec 01: geology with focus on how our planet works and how it has changed throughout, knowing how the earth works is fundamental to managing environmental challenges. Urban sprawl and the impact of super cities. Managing/protecting water sources, watersheds, and natural ecosystems. Green field site it"s the use of agricultural land for urban development. Ground field sites abandoned sites push on to use these ground fields. Public safety more and more people in dangerous situations. Climate warming affects- changing the configuration of the world built landscape harden watersheds put roads and buildings so rainfall cannot affect the ground. Resource extraction still need oil and gas. Pushing adjacent plates away and pushing us to the west. All the magma produces rocks high in iron and magnesium, very dark colored and heavy rocks phsalt density 2. 9 cubic centimetre. Rocks tend to settle in plastic mantle: outgassing from mantle to the atmosphere, pushed back into mantle and recycling subduction zones.
