'Transform plate' presentation slideshows

PLATE TECTONICS

PLATE TECTONICS. Chapters 7, 8, & 9 Test 2 material End. LEGEND. AZTEC INDIANS OF MEXICO SACRIFICED HUMANS TO KEEP AWAY EARTHQUAKES AND TO KEEP SUN ALIVE BY CUTTING OUT THE HEARTS OF THEIR VICTIMS AND THROWING THEM INTO VOLCANO. LEGEND.

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Developing an Understanding of Plate Tectonics

Developing an Understanding of Plate Tectonics. The Inner Earth. Layered Beneath its familiar surface & thin crust lie a rocky mantle & iron core Hot Core = hotter than surface of the Sun Escape of inner heat to cold outer space causes plates to move. The Inner Earth. Flows & Churns

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Plate Tectonics

Plate Tectonics. Large-scale Change. How to Create a Paradigm Shift. Snider-Pellegrini, 1858. Continental Drift, 1912. Alfred Wegener (1880-1930). Matthew Fontaine Maury, 1854. USS Nautilus. Marie Tharp and Bruce Heezen, early 1950s. Paleomagnetism, late 1950s.

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Plate Tectonics

Plate Tectonics. lithosphere. asthenosphere. mesosphere. Lithosphere (hard). Asthenosphere (soft). Mesosphere. Earth formed 4.6 bya. Inner Core- 4300 o C mostly iron core inner part is so compressed that it is solid Outer Core- 3700 o C iron and sulfur liquid . Crust

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Chapter 3 Marine Provinces

Chapter 3 Marine Provinces. Essentials of Oceanography 7 th Edition. Bathymetry. Bathymetry is the measurement of ocean depths and the charting of the shape or topography of the ocean floor The ocean floor is a highly varied terrain that contains many interesting features

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Plate Boundaries

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Fixing a Hole in the Sky

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Earth Systems 3209

Earth Systems 3209. Reference: Chapters 4, 15, 16, 19; Appendix A & B. Unit: 4 The Forces Within Earth. Unit 4: Topic 2.3. Plate Tectonic Theory. Focus on . . . describing the theory of plate tectonics. Plate Tectonic Theory.

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How Landforms Are Created

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Convergent Plate Boundary - Oceanic and Continental Plates

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New Oceanic lithosphere forms

New Oceanic lithosphere forms. At convergent plate boundaries At divergent plate boundaries At transform plate boundaries At all plate boundaries. If the Atlantic is spreading at a rate of 3 cm per year, how far will it spread in 1 million years. 300 Kilometers 3 Kilometers

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