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  • June 3, 2024
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  • 2023/2024
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  • environmental and geographical science

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Geosystems : Earen & Enviro Sci

, Overview

1 .




Geology
-
weeks 1 - 3




2 . Deep time
-
week 4




.
3
Archaeology
-
weeks 5-S




4
. Environmental and
geographical science
-
Weeks 9-12

, 1. Geology
Week 1

Lecture I


· the Sun is the earth's external energy

·
Earth System -
Earth's interacting physical , chemical and biological processes


and minerals
·
Geosphere-Rocks on earth


· Earth is one
big complex system

· Human interactions with the earth are intricate


· We need geology to understand our
past , present and to predict the future




Lecture 2

·
the earth created the moon when an astroid hit the earth millions of years ago

· Crust -> upper mantle -
> transition zone - lower mantle -
> outer core >
-
inner core



·
lower properties pushes plates
around
mantle - not and
squishy , slow currents like
honey
·
upper mantle properties ->
> more ridged like rocks , forms the lithosphere with the crust




Lecture 3

· life formed in water and was critical for life to evolve


· lithosphere is made up of hard plates


· Rock evidence of tectonics - Glacial deposits of in the
the same age occur southern hemisphere

continents
showing evidence that the continents were once joined

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