Conversations with the Earth Tom Burbine [email protected]
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Next week
• No class
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Midterm
• March 24• You can bring in a sheet of paper with anything
written on it• You can bring in your hand-written mineral
sheets
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Rocks on the Surface
• If you can see rocks on the surface that comes from the interior, you can study them
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• Rocks can deform and flow• Easier for rock to deform and flow when it is
warmer
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Lithosphere
• Lithosphere is a planet’s outer layer of cool and relatively rigid rock
• Asthenosphere is the region in the upper mantle characterized by low-density, semiplastic (or partially molten) rock material chemically similar to the overlying lithosphere
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Heating of Planet
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How does the planetary interior cool off?
• Heat is transported outward
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How does the planetary interior cool off?
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Plate Tectonics
• Plate tectonics describes the large scale motions of Earth's lithosphere.
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Pangea• Pangea - One large supercontinent
http://geology.csupomona.edu/drjessey/class/Gsc101/pangea.gif
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Principles of Plate Tectonics
1. The surface of the Earth is composed of lithospheric plates that are in constant motion.
2. The plates move in response to plastic flow in the athenosphere.
3. Motion in the asthenosphere is caused by convection driven by the Earth’s internal heat.
4. The internal heat comes from radioactive decay and the latent heat from the Earth’s formation.
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Three Types of Plate Tectonic Boundaries• Divergent – plates move apart, space is filled with
molten magma• Convergent – plates collide• Transform – plates slide horizontally past each other
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Divergent plate boundary
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Convergent Plate Boundary
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Hot spots
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Transform Boundaries
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Any Questions?