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EA1301 Exploring Planet Earth

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By: Isabelle Jones
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Decks in this class (17)

Deep Time (1.3.1)
What was the scientific revolution,
What was neptunism and plutonism,
Who was james hutton
5  cards
The Fundamental Principles of Geology (1.3.2)
Methods of dating geological mate...,
Methods of dating geological mate...,
What is superposition
12  cards
Principles of Stratigraphy (1.3.3)
What is stratigraphy,
Who was william smith,
What was the map that changed the...
8  cards
The Geological Timescale and Absolute Dating (1.3.4)
What is the geological column,
How are they dated herodotus of h...,
How are they dated john joly
13  cards
Earth's Internal Structure: How Do We Look Inside Earth (2.2.1)
Is evidence from meteorites direc...,
W,
What are most xenoliths made up of
6  cards
Earth's Internal Structure: Earthquakes and Faults (2.2.2)
What are earthquakes,
What is the epicentre,
What is the hypocentre focus
17  cards
Earth's Internal Structure: Seismic Waves (2.2.3)
Energy and seismic waves,
How is magnitude of earthquakes m...,
How often do large earthquakes occur
5  cards
Earth's Internal Structure: Earth's Seismic Structure (2.2.4)
How can seismic waves help us loo...,
What is snell s law,
What is the mohorovicic discontin...
10  cards
Earth's Internal Structure: Gravity and the Geoid (2.3.1)
What did most people in aristotle...,
What is the actual shape of the e...,
What is the mass of earth
14  cards
Earth's Internal Structure: Gravity Isostasy (2.3.2)
Who was pierre bouguer,
What was john pratt s explanation,
What was george biddell airy s ex...
9  cards
Earth's Internal Structure: Thermal Structure of Earth (2.3.3)
What is a geothermal gradient,
What is the lithosphere,
What is the asthenosphere
18  cards
Earth's Internal Structure: Earth Magnetism (2.3.4)
What is the earth s dipole magnet...,
What is declination and inclination,
Inclination of magnetic field is ...
11  cards
Continental Drift (3.1)
What are some historical concepts,
What was the origin of continenta...,
What was wegener s evidence
7  cards
Exploration of the Oceans (3.2)
Mapping seafloor acoustics and ec...,
What is seismic reflection,
What is swath bathymetry
10  cards
Seafloor Spreading (3.3)
Who was harry hess,
What were some early seismic inve...,
What was the key report to us nav...
7  cards
Plate Tectonics (3.4)
What were the implications of the...,
What is a hotspot,
What did tuzo wilson recognise
10  cards
Divergent Plate Margins (3.5)
0  cards

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