GEOL 1304 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Continental Crust, Oceanic Crust, Keno
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One of them will sink. ex: japanese arcchpelago. 3 techniques that allow us to study terra rma social system seismic waves, boreholes, kimberlite . (seismic waves travel faster through denser open ) 3 eras separated by ock experimental extinction paleozoic, mesozoic, cenozoic. crust is composed of. Eastern malayo-polynesian (basalt, more dense 5-ten km thick ) and continental (granite, less dense 10- Recent severance eccentric of volcano. denotation of the crust/ plate rake apart and new sea oor is being created. ex: mt kilimanjaro (dormant volcano) dormant bc has not erupted over past 10,000 years but will erupt eventually. ****severance created atlantic ocean in pangea***ex: orient african rift currently happening volcanoes mid-ocean ridge, continental/volcanic bow , island arc, rift, hot of ce volcanism when was the end of the last ice years. Took three erruptions for this to happen to yellowstone river.