PSYC 2300 Chapter : Chapter 9
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R n7n h 6 geog 2051-01 (t-th 9:00-10:20 e130 hr) Please bring a small scantron form and pencil. ), location (latitude, longitude), projections (distortion, families, standard line/point); remote sensing (electromagnetic radiation, passive & active sensors, platforms, geostationary & polar orbits); geographic information systems (layers/ coverages, electronic maps). History/structure of the earth: planetesimal hypothesis: how the solar system and earth cam into existence; Geologic time 4. 6 billion yr old earth (precambrian-beginning to half a billion years ago, Phanerozoic-second half of time, quaternary-last two million years, pleistocene-first half of quatrernary, holocene-second half of quaternary); Dating (relative, superposition), (absolute, dendrochronology, radiometric, isotope, half-life); uniformitarianism, catastrophism; layers (core (inner, outer), mantle, asthenosphere, uppermost mantle, crust (oceanic and continental), lithosphere, temperature/density trends). Earth materials: element-oxygen 47% and silicon 27%, mineral, rock; common elements; Rock cycle, lithification, weathering, metamorphosis; sedimentary rocks (clastic, grain size, sandstone etc.
