EESA06H3 Lecture 3: Planet Earth (EESA06) Midterm Notes Overview
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Gondwana (india, australia, south africa, south america: key terms: supercontinent cycle (they break up and the whole cycle starts again) and glacial. Pangea and argued that different fossil types across continents make sense on a reassembled pangea. Iceland is on a mor and its increasing in size. Decompression melting (typical of hot fluid basaltic magmas of hot spots and mors), alphine. Himalayan orogeny (creates a collision zone of high mountains made of deformed oceanic rocks from western europe to australia), dead sea rift (transform boundary between arabian and african plates), Archaeoseismology (archeologists work with geologists to try and determine the frequency of large earthquakes along the dead sea transform) Lecture 5 notes: how oceans widen and mature: alps are the result of africa coming up and colliding with eurasia, petra (powerful earthquake along the dead sea fault, key terms: recurrence interval (frequency of big earthquakes)
