EESA06H3- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 86 pages long!)
30 Nov 2017
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Plate tectonics: plates are like a brittle skin, plate tectonics describes the action of the skin (crust) of the earth in response to convection at the depth of the mantle. Plymouth was a city near one of the eruptions that got murdered. In the mid-60s geophysics the ability to map remotely what was underneath the oceans and underground using electromagnetic waves: using sound as it reverberates back to see how far things were. Tuzo wilson: pt: it was the plates that were moving (new idea, he said the difference b/w cd and pt. Matching rock types: wegener looked @ rock types of the same age on the different continents as evidence. In order for salt to form you need marine sediment and a lot of evaporation. If you rearrange the continents, all the different climates make sense. It is (cid:374)ot the (cid:272)li(cid:373)ate that has (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ged, (cid:271)ut the (cid:272)o(cid:374)ti(cid:374)e(cid:374)t"s location.
