EARTHSS 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Apparent Polar Wander, Cookie Dough, Continental Drift
24 Oct 2018
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Be able to predict how gravitational force changes with mass or distance and explain how it resulted in the creation of the earth. Be able to describe earth"s layers and explain why they formed. Describe the evidence for continental drift and explain why the hypothesis was not accepted at the time. Evidence for the theory of plate tectonics. Able to describe/explain info of the magnetic field is recorded by rocks and interpret/predict invention records of apparent polar wander . Describe/explain evidence that allowed seafloor spreading hypothesis to be proposed and how it was confirm. Crust (think of an apple the skin is the crust) Iclicker question is the mantle a solid liquid or neither. 1596: america was torn apart - looks like they fit together. He was right all along - 1950s 1960s new tech allowed us to investigate earth"s magnetic field.
