EPSC 233 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Amplitude Modulation, Subduction, Oxygen
20 Nov 2018
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2: accessory minerals types of silicates, silica tetrahedral can be, isolated units boded to other cations (e. g. mg2+, fe2+, arranged in chains (single or double, arranged in sheets (micas) 3: melting rocks, heating, just add water, decrease pressure. Plate tectonics: underneath the earth"s surface that move relative to each other, driven my mantle convection, alfred wegener noticed that the atlantic coastlines of south. American and south africa would fit together and that the fossils between the continents were also very similar: glacial movements in south america, south africa, india and. Australia suggest that these areas were all influenced by a single ice sheet: wegener first hypothesized the supercontinental reconstruction (pangea, wasn"t believed, earth"s magnetic field, inclination: angle a compass needle that varies with magnetic latitude: cot m = tan(i) Superposition: bottom layers of rocks are older than those on the top.
