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Intro to Earth- Geosphere
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GeosphereGeosphere: Land on surface and interior of Earth
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Geosphere
• Lithosphere: cool, rigid shell (made of rocks)• Asthenosphere: part of mantle made of malleable rock • Mesosphere: part of mantle made of solid rock
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Geosphere
• Outer Core: Molten iron and nickel • Causes Earth’s Magnetic field
• Inner Core: Solid iron and nickel
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Plate Tectonics
• Theory of Plate Tectonics: Earth’s lithosphere is fragmented into a dozen plates that are moving
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Plate Tectonics-History
• Early 1900s: Alfred Wegener proposes continental drift • Continents were once one giant land mass (Pangaea) that had separated over time
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Plate Tectonics-Evidence• Continents look like a puzzle with pieces that fit together• The same fossils were found on continents separated by oceans
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Plate Tectonics-Evidence
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Plate Boundaries• Divergent Boundary: Plates are moving apart, forms new crust
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Plate Boundaries• Rifts: Surface cracking, can form oceans• Mid ocean ridges: Newly formed (200 million years old) underwater mountain chains
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Plate Boundaries
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Plate Boundaries
• Convergent Boundaries: One plate sinks under another (subducts); forms trenches, mountains
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Plate Boundaries
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Plate Boundaries
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Plate Boundaries• Transform-fault boundaries: 2 Plates sliding horizontally past each other
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Plate Boundaries• Active volcanoes and earthquakes tend to occur around most plate boundaries
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Cause of Plate Tectonics
• Sea floor spreading or ridge pull: New lithosphere forms at mid ocean ridges (underwater mountains) causing plates to move
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Cause of Plate Tectonics
• Convection in mantle causes motion of plates
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Cause of Plate Tectonics
• Slab pull: As a plate subducts, it pulls the rest of the plate with it due to gravity
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Volcano
• Volcano: A structure made of a combination of cooled molten rock and/or dust/rocks
• Fueled by magma that enters the crust from the mantle when a plate subducts
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Volcano
• Lava: Molten rock• Pyroclastic flow: A combination of hot ash, dust, and gases that travel at high speeds from eruption
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Lava
• Basaltic: Thin lava, dark in color, high in temperature, flows quickly• Rhyolitic: Thicker lava, light in color, lower temperature, flows slowly• Andesitic: In-between other 2 types
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Volcano
• Quiet eruptions: Lava only• Explosive eruptions: Pyroclastic material and lava
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Earthquake
• Earthquake: When a break between rocks (fault) moves causing ground vibrations (seismic waves)
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Earthquake
• Body Waves: Travel through Earth• P (primary) waves
• Fastest (6 km/s)• Compressional waves: Cause change in volume and density of material
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Earthquake
• S (secondary) waves• Half speed of P waves• Shear waves: Cause change in shape of material
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Earthquake
• Surface waves: travel on surface of Earth• half speed of S waves• Can move ground vertically or horizontally
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Earth Interior
• Can use seismic waves to determine composition of crust, mantle, core• S waves only travel through solids• P waves travel through solids and liquids• P waves travel faster through solids, slower in liquids
Earthquake
• Earthquakes cause damage through shaking and liquefaction• Liquefaction: Soil and sediment behaves like a liquid and cannot support structures
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Earthquake• Tsunami or Seismic Sea Wave
• A fault in the ocean slips or a large underwater land slide occurs• Creates a fast moving wave (500-1000 km/hr)• As waves reach shore, velocity decreases but height increases
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