EESA06H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Principle Of Faunal Succession, Actualism, Canadian Shield
11 Jan 2016
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Pacific plate going beneath the philippine plate both going underneath japanese mainland (tokyo is dangerous) Japan as a whole moved east 25metres normal is 2. 5- 3cm/year: plates were locked build up of stress and energy, recurrence interval plates locked for 1000years (superquakes) vertical uplift is what killed people tsunami and lowered shoreline. The earth is 4. 56 billion years old. Ancient greeks recognized fossils embedded in rocks now on top of mountains. Strata beds, older at bottom, deposition and accumulation of older layers: can use these to correlate rocks from one location to another, aliogeography trying to find out what it was like in ancient times. Diluvium (meaning of a flood") africa was moving towards north america, collided with east coast from noah"s flood contains different life forms. Strict biblical interpretation of earth"s history rocks and landscapes result. More than one flood recognized new life created each time so each layer.
