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groundwater velocity ~ cm/yr to 250m/day driven by elevation and water pressure darcys law ~ v=Ki greater difference in hydraulic head or height of water table over distance = faster flow hydraulic head: elevation of measuring point plus the height of water above, h=z(elevation)+w(weigh...

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Triple Bottom Line


✓✓✓✓~ people, planet, profit




nebular hypothesis


✓✓✓✓~ bodies in solar system evolved from solar nebula




earth forms


✓✓✓✓~ 4.6-4.5 bya




Earth's internal structure


✓✓✓✓~ crust, mantle, outer core, inner core




time periods


✓✓✓✓~ eon, era, period, epoch




phanerozoic eon

,✓✓✓✓~ paleozoic, mesozoic, cenozoic eras




radiometric dating


✓✓✓✓~ calculating ages of rocks and minerals that contain a particular isotope




relative dating


✓✓✓✓~ principle of fossil succession, law of superposition




first life


✓✓✓✓~ 4 bya, anerobic archaea, archaen eon




stromatolites


✓✓✓✓~ bacterial colonies, archaen eon




proterozoic eon


✓✓✓✓~ oxygenation, major ice age, first great extinction




ordovician period


✓✓✓✓~ major extinction due to ice age

,carboniferous period


✓✓✓✓~ age of coal, large forests




permian period


✓✓✓✓~ pangea forms(breaks up in triassic), permian extinction




mezozoic era


✓✓✓✓~ age of dinosaurs




tertiary period


✓✓✓✓~ cretaceous-tertiary extinction, mammals thrive




quaternary period


✓✓✓✓~ rise of humans




anthropocene


✓✓✓✓~ new epoch declared in 2016




lithosphere

, ✓✓✓✓~ uppermost mantle and overlying crust, tectonic plates




asthenosphere


✓✓✓✓~ weaker region in mantle below lithosphere




continental drift evidence


✓✓✓✓~ fit of continents, ancient ice ages, fossils, paleomagnetics, rock types and
structures




plate tectonics


✓✓✓✓~ lithospheric plates move relative to one another, driven by convection in mantle, 2-
5cm/yr




hotspots


✓✓✓✓~ dynamic crust moves over stationary plumes of molten magma in mantle, hawaii




divergent boundary


✓✓✓✓~ two plates move apart, new seafloor come sup, mostly at ocean ridges and rift
valleys, iceland




transform boundary

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