EESA06H3 Lecture 8: EESA06 Lecture 8 Notes
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Japan tsunami: pacific plate separated by shallow water from philippine plate, tsunami radiates out towards the pacific. Japan moved 25 metres, direction is shown by vectors and distances seen by slip graph. It moved in one instance, because the plates are locked and built up of stress for a thousand years (frequency) Japan goes east and pacific plate underneath goes west: slide 5 is the uplift/elevation of japanese coastline, which killed people due to tilting up of ocean floor/crust, water going west and shoreline got depressed. T he eart h is 4. 56 bill ion (4,560 000 000) years old. Each layer may have a distinctive fossil type: correlate the rocks in one location with one from another location such as canada and. Australia: find the contemporary/ancient environment, paleogeology, diluvium: meaning of a flood e. g. rocks. I nterpretation of the bible with the goal of getting the earth"s age. Earth was young: georgius agricola: mining and saw layers and different strata.
