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Heating the Atmosphere
Earth-Sun Relationships
Composition of the Atmosphere
Air is a mixture of many discrete gases with their own physical properties in which different quantities of tiny solid/liquid particles are suspended.
Vertical Structure of the Atmosphere
Dating With Radioactivity
Creating a Time Scale: Relative Dating Principles
What Drives Plate Motions?
Convection (hot rocks rise and cold rocks sink) is the ultimate driver of plate tectonics
Transform Plate Boundaries
A. Oceanic-Continental Convergence
When a plate capped with continental crust converges with a slab of oceanic lithosphere, the buoyant continental block remains ?floating?; denser oceanic crust sinks into the mantle.
When oceanic slab goes down about 100km, melting is triggered in the asthenosphere above it. This is because the ?wet? oceanic rock in a high-pressure place melts at a much lower temperature than ?dry? rock of the same material does.
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