EARTH 10- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 60 pages long!)
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Earth 10- introduction: antarctica has the potential to raise sea levels 60-70 m. Some of the fastest rates of warming on the planet. Important driver of global climate iclicker: there are active volcanoes in antarctica. Ever recorded on earth:-89. 2 c (-128. 6f) on july 21st, 1983. Came close this year:-92. 2 c (-135. 3f) on july 31, 2015. A unique continent: world"s coldest continent, world"s driest continent, world"s windiest continent, highest average elevation. 2300m (7500ft: on polar plateau <50mm (2 inches) this year. 97%-99% surface is covered in ice or snow glaciated since at least oligocene (~28ma), possibly eocene (~40ma) Terrestrial ice sheet: on land, not the ocean. 6m sea-level equivalent: way less ice: marine-based ice sheet: ice in equilibrium with ocean, convergent ice ow. Separated by: weddell sea (beneath the atlantic ocean) or iceberg alley , ross sea (below new zealand) Bordered on its west by east antarctica and the transantarctic mountains.
