EESA06H3 Lecture : EESA LEC 8 NOTES
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Eesa lec 8 notes: geologic time & stratigraphy slides. Describes why the effects of the tsunami were so severe. Lec 8 and onwards and relevant chapters are all on plate tectonics. View of earth h istorythat earth was created in an instant) Slide 5: archbishop ussher : t ried to use the bible to get information on the. Earth history (at the time was considered a scientific undertaken: counted generations in bible and in 1625, declared the earth was only. U. s. , hoover (mining engineer) and his most last monument is the. Hoover dam (built in 1930"s to ir rigate the desert) in las vegas. Nicholas quote on slide nailed the logic behind geology. (3rd page of slides) Actualism": hutton came up with term facies meaning the appearance of in latin and he spoke of the rock facies by observing different types of rocks.
