GEOL 104 Lecture Notes - Water Cycle, Andesite, Transform Fault
17 Feb 2012
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Distribution of volcanoes (along plate boundaries - diverging or converging boundaries) It helps explain benioff zones the subduction zones where the plate is going down) Huyot - a flat topped seamount perhaps with coral fossils. The earthquakes occur in an area where there is relative motion of two plates. Active volcanoes don"t occur around transform boundaries. Water is an aagent of change on the earth"s surface. Flowing water in rivers alters the eath"s surface and would normally be the first topic when looking at water as an erosional agent. Hydrological cycle will be the only thing covered from the chapter on running water. 97. 2% of the earth"s water are in the oceans. Glaciers accounts for 2% of the world"s water.
