GEOLOGY 105 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Pacific Plate, Asthenosphere, Lithosphere
11 Aug 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Internal structure of earth: thickness of continental crust: 8-40 km (5-40 km, thickness of oceanic crust: 7 km (0-50 km, thickness of mantle: 2,900 km (2885 km, 2 dynamic systems: Heat moving from hot interior cooler exterior. Forms ocean basins, mountain ranges, volcanoes and earthquakes. Primary driver for atmospheric and hydrospheric circulation. Responsible for climate, storms, glaciers, rivers, erosions, and. What was his most famous quotation: james hutton b. The present is the key to the past - james hutton: hutton"s principle of uniformitarianism, geological processes that we see operating today are some processes that operated in the past. = initial amount of parent isotope b. iii. amount remaining of parent isotope amount of daughter isotope b. iv. b. v. = decay constant= 0. 693/half-life b. vi. b. vii. = elapsed time since rock formed (the sum of the parent and daughter isotopes is always the same: radiocarbon dating method half-life/0. 693 c. i. c. ii. Continental drift: what is pangea, pangea was the supercontinent.
