GEOL 1112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mount Everest, Virgo Supercluster, List Of U.S. States And Territories By Elevation
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At 0 degrees it is called the equator: longitude. At 0 degrees it is called the greenwich: highest elevation point. Mount everest with a distance of 8. 8 kilometers up: lowest elevation point. The mariano trench with a distance of 11 kilometers down. What is geology: the study of earth and the planets. The milky way: the galaxy in which we live in. Order of universal existence: the universe -> the local supercluster -> the local group -> the milky way galaxy -> Heated up rocks, squish rocks, bury rocks. Plate tectonics: cause of earthquakes, volcanoes, and tsunamis. Similarity of rock sequences and mountain ranges. Paleo magnetic studies: plate tectonics theory. The crust and upper mantle which is mostly solid: convective cells. It is a heat system, and is the basic process responsible for plate motion: divergent. Two plates moving apart form each other causing mid-ocean ridges: convergent. Two plates colliding into each other: transform.
