GEOL 1330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: National Flood Insurance Program, Geologic Hazards, Scientific Method
21 Sep 2016
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The scientific study of the processes, events, and consequences of the earth"s past, present, and future. Texas has billion worth of property in 100-year floodplains national flood. Hurricanes: texas, louisiana, mississippi, florida, n&s carolina, etc. We study past climates to predict future climates. A body of knowledge related to the study of natural phenomenon. Hypothesis is a statement designed to explain a set of observations. The best hypothesis explains all existing observations. Big bang theory 13. 7 ga (billion years old) The universe was initially concentrated in an extremely hot, dense, ball smaller than an atom. An explosion of immense proportions caused intense temperatures and rapid expansion. Temperatures more than 1000x greater than the sun. The outer planets, jupiter, saturn, neptune, uranus, were the first to form. They are gaseous planets made of methane and ammonia ice. The planets closest to the sun are made of metals and rocky minerals. The accretion lasted anywhere from 30 to 50 million years.
