EESA06H3- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 101 pages long!)
29 Mar 2018
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Week 1: lecture #1: monday january 05, 2015. Na plate moves around 4cm/yr to the west. Need geoscientists to find water, explain things, etc. How our planet works ( plate tectonics") from its deep interior to its surface. And subject to large scale convection(?) processes, where the hot toffee-like rocks raise and then sink, and that convection process drives the movement of the plate on the earth surface. Main things about course: plate tectonics & supercontinent cycle. Five part series: tectonic europe, pacific rim west, pacific rim . Along the great african rift, asia: collision zone (supposed to watch these, can be found on bb) Figure numbers on slide respond to those in the textbook. Pangaea = all the land, one sub super continent. Gondwana = the southern continents (africa, sa, australia & etc) Soon all the plates will move tgt again and the atlantic ocean will come tgt (mature ) Known as pangaea 2 (in another billions years time)
