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Structural Geology and Plate Tectonics
This concerns the changes in the formation of the earth crust and mantle from the smallest to the largest, such as a series of mountains (UWYO, 2011). Conducting a study of these changes requires a conduct of fieldwork in coordination with other scientific disciplines, such as geophysics, geochemistry and petrology. The University of Wyoming has conducted such fieldwork on the different active and ancient areas of crustl and mantle changes. This fieldwork continues at present on topics, including continental and oceanic extensional tectonics, aboriginal arc-continental collisions, fault systems, crustal studies, fold and fault features and direct dating of these changes (UWYO).
These studies looked into the Archean depths in Wyoming province, the Rocky Mountain, the Alps, the Colorado River, the Carribean and the San Andres fault (UWYO, 2011). Researchers have swam and dug into thousands of meters into the ocean in order to look and obtain samples of plate margins for study on land. What are all these efforts for? The search for answers and increased knowledge on what factors drive the basic processes that change the changes of the earth's crust and mantle -- that is the answer. It also seeks to find...
In their time, they could predict the regularity of rains and typhoons, for example, and they could prepare for these disturbances. They also observe the swiftness with which day and night replace each day. Days seemed to move slowly in their time. And the recent upheavals in nature are nothing they knew in the past. Global warming and climate change are recent phenomena, which they could not have imagined occurring in the past but which are major threats to life and health to present habitants of the earth today.
II. Surface Processes
Changes on the surface of the earth take many forms and are not static (Noble, 2015). The weather may reduce the size of mountains to small hills and rivers may erode and wash their components into the oceans. But the heat underneath the earth can create processes to replace these eroded mountains. The surface of the earth is dynamic and balanced. Some processes reduce elevations while others rebuild and replace elevations. If the earth were static, weather processes would wash all eroded materials into the oceans.…
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Noble, M.A. (2015). Processes that shape the surface of the earth. Vol. 11 Earth System History
and Natural Variability: Encyclopedia of Life Support System. Retrieved on July 17, 2015
from http://www.eolss.net/Sample-Chapters/C12/F1-01-03/pdf
UWYO (2011). Structural geology and tectonics. Department of Geology and Geophysics:
University of Wyoming. Retrieved on July 17, 2015 from http://www.uwyo.edu/geolgeophys/research/structural-geology-tectonics.html
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