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The oceans covers

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71% of the earths surface

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The average depth of the oceans is

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3800m

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The deepest depth of the oceans is, and was visited by who?

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10,994 meters. By two men in 1960 and by James Cameron in 2012

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What percentage of all the Living volume of life is in the oceans

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more then 90%

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light only penetrates to

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100m water depth

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bio luminescence is

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the most common evolutionary trait of life!

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What percentage of all goods are transported across the ocean at some point

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90%

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Oceanography is divided into sub categories

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Geological, Chemical, Physical, Biological

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Geological

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  • Structure of the ocean basins
    * Sedimentary processes
    * Interpretation of the sediment record
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Chemical

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  • Composition of seawater
    * Biogeochemical cycles
    * Effects of pollutants
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Physical

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  • Motion of the water
    * Ocean circulation
    * Ocean mixing
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Biological

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  • Ecology of marine organisms
    * Fisheries oceanography, sustainability
    * Similar to marine biology, however more focus on ecological aspects
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Oceanus

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Titan son of Gaia, His realm was the Boundary between the living and the dead

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Aristotle

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  • The first marine scientist.
    • Meterologica a number of explanations for how the oceans were formed and why they were salty
    • Attempted to explain ocean tides
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Polynesian voyagers

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First true ocean explorers

* Highly skilled navigators using the sun and stars, there patterns on the surface waves, the flight paths of migratory birds, and even the smell of the water 
* Originated in the Philippines 
    * Travelled to New Guinea 30,000 years ago
    * Travelled to Hawaii 1500 years ago
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Greeks

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  • By 900-700BC the ancient greeks ventured as far west as at the strait of Gibraltar (750m)
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The Principles of Navigation

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  • Some idea of scale

* Some idea of location

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Eratosthenes of Cyrene

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  • Accurately calculated the Earths circumference
    • Also discovered the Earths tilt within a degree, that there are 365 and 1/4 days in the year, and proposed the addition of leap years
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Circumference of the earth

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Summer solstice Knew the sun was directly overhead in Aswan, Egypt and was 7* off Alexandria. Knew actual distance. = 25,252 miles

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Autumn Equinox

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Sun is directly over the equator (0*)

Its rays hit all of the earth equally from pole to pole

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Winter Solstice

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Three months later (one/quarter a year) later
Sun is directly above the Tropic of Capricorn (23.5S)
The Sun no longer rises in the Arctic Circle (above 66.5N)
The start of winter in the Northern Hemisphere
The shortest day of the year

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Vernal (Spring) Equinox

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Three months later (one/quarter a year) later
Sun is directly over the equator (0*)
Its rays hit all of the earth equally from pole to pole
Start of Spring in the Western Hemisphere

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Summer Solstice

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Three months later (one/quarter a year) later
Sun is directly above the Tropic of Cancer (23.5N)
First day of summer in the Western Hemisphere
The sun never sets in the Arctic Circle (above 66.5N)
The longest day of the year

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Latitude

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  • Measured along the North-South axis
    • Similar to the y-axis in a graph
    • 1 Degree of latitude is an exact distance. It is exactly 1/360 the circumference of the Earth
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Important Latitudes

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  • North Pole 90N
    * Tropic of Cancer 23.5    N
    * Equator 0*
    * Tropic of Capricorn 23.5*
    * South Pole 90*S
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Determining ones latitude

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Estimate the angle from the horizon to the Sun (or Polaris) at its highest point (noon) and correct for the time of year, In the northern hemisphere only
This method was used as early as 400AD
Cross staff and the Astrolobe

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Longitude

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  • Measured along the East-West axis
    • Similar to the x-axis in a graph
    • Longitude is a function of time
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John Harrison

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Reliable method for determining longitude
by calculating the difference in time between your noon and the time at Greenwich (Prime meridian) and then mutlipy by 15* you get your longitude
John Harrison’s chronometer was accurate to within 1/3 of a second

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James Cook

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In HMS Endeavour followed Transit of Venus. Found and charted New Zealand and Australia Great Barrier Reef, found the cure to scurry. Killed by Hawaiians

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Charles Darwin

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HMS Beagle in 1831. Mapping expectation

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HMS Challenger

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Captain George S. Nares. To investigate the physical and biological condition of the great ocean basins, 3 1/2, Sampled over 350 bottom samples. C. WyvilleThomson

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Fridtjof Nansen and Frederick Johansen

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Cool Guy 😎. First to cross Greenland ice sheet by dogsled. Arctic ice currents. The Fram. Crew of 13 men stuck in ice for nearly 4 years. Came within 400 m of North Pole.

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C. Wyville Thomson

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Coined the term oceanography in its present sense

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Ronald Nansen

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Found the Northwest passage

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35
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Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROV)

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ROPOS: Remotley operated Platform for Ocean Science

Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV)

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36
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The Big Bang

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  • Occurred 13.8 Billion years ago

* The massive explosion sent matter hurtling out in all directions

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37
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Georges Lemaitre

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Proposed the idea of the big bang in in 1927

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38
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Doppler effect:

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As light travels towards us, the wave lengths being emitted will be compressed out will causing it to be blue shifted
As light travels away from us, the wave lengths being emitted will be stretched out will causing it to be red shifted

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39
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Visible wavelength spectrum

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Purple= 400 
Green = 500
Yellow= 600
Red= 700
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edward Hubble

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  • Found supporting evidence for the Big band theory

* Distant galaxies in all directions are flying away from us, at speeds proportional to their distance

41
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A million years after the Big Bang

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cool down, particles, clouds, stars, heavier particles, supernovas, nebulas, planetesimals, protoplanets, planets

42
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Giant-impact hypothesis

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hot, then A large planetesimals collied into earth, losing some mantel, caused earths tilt and to cool down and speed up rotation

43
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iron catastrophe

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  • Molten material began to cool down
    • Heavier elements like iron sank into the earths core
    • Lighter elements rose to the surface
      not unique to earth, did not occur on the moon
      50 Million Years After the Earth Formed
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Origin of Earths water

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  1. 4 billion years ago the earth had its oceans, * The outgassing theory: * Volcanic activity would have released water vapour onto the surface
    * The collision with the moon would have blown away any atmosphere the earth had therefore cooling the earth
45
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Differentiation by chemical characteristics

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Crust: 0-80km
* Continental crust: Granite, lighter
* Oceanic crust: Basalt, heavier, contains more metals
Mantle: 80km-2900km
* Similar in chemical composition to oceanic crust
* More magnesium and iron
Core:
* iron

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Differentiation by their physical characteristics

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  • Lithosphere: 0-100km
    * Lithos means stone
    * Crust and outer most part of mantel
    • Asthenosphere: 100-300km
      • Asthenes means soft
      • Not strictly a liquid but no a solid either
      • Deforms under stress
      • Lithosphere literally floats on top of it
    • Mesosphere: 300- 2900km
      • Mesos means middle
      • Rigid due to extreme pressure
    • Outer core:
      • Extremely dense liquid
      • 5500 degrees Celsius
    • Inner core:
      • More pressure there solid
      • 6000 degrees
47
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The magnetic field

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protects the Earth from the solar wind

Iron core

48
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The Aurora Borealis

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arise from the solar wind plunging into Earth’s atmosphere

49
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Solar system

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Our solar system formed 4.55 billion years ago.

50
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Crust

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a thin rigid outer layer rich in Silicates 6-80km
Continental crust is thicker and composed primarily of granite 40km
Oceanic crust is thinner and composed primarily of basalt, high density 8km

51
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Mantel

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contains more iron and magnesium than the crust. 80km-2900km

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Silicates

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Contain silica, oxygen and one or more metals.
* Two main groups
Mafic silicates: contain heavier metals like magnesium and iron. (Basalt )
Felsic silicates: contain lighter metals like aluminum and potassium. (Granite)

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Asthenosphere

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  • is a plastic layer that flows when deformed.

* 300-500km

54
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Lithosphere

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  • is the rigid outer layer.
    • It includes the crust and upper mantle.
    • 1-100km
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Mesosphere

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  • is the more rigid, less fluid part of the middle and lower mantle.
    • Largest physical property
56
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heat energy to the Earth:

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  • Compaction as the Earth coalesced;
    • Bombardment by meteors and planetesimals;
    • Radioactive decay
    • Solar radiation
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Three basic types of heat flow

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Conduction: is heat passing through a substance, without any movement of the substance.

Convection: is the flow of heat caused by the movement of a heated substance.

Radiation: is the flow of heat through space with no direct contact with another object.

58
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Heat

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is thermal energy transferred from a hotter system that is in contact with a cooler system.

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Density

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  • Density of a substance is equal to its mass divided by its volume.
  • Density has units of kg m-3
  • Density determines buoyancy
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Isostasy

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  • The lithosphere, which is rigid, floats on the asthenosphere, which is plastic and can flow.
    Principle that lithosphere rides at a state of gravitational equilibrium on the asthenosphere is called isostasy
    The weight of a unit area of lithosphere equals its density times its thickness.
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P waves,

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also known as primary or compression waves, move back and forth in the direction of wave motion.

    * First ones to arrive after an earthquake  (primary)
    * Faster 
    * Able to transmit energy through fluids
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S waves,

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also known as secondary or shear waves, move from side to side, perpendicular to the direction of wave motion.

    * Secondary because arrive second in an earthquake 
    * slower	
    * Do not transmit energy through fluids
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Seismic waves

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are low-frequency, energetic wave motions generated by earthquakes
P AND S waves

64
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Waves

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propagate away from a zone of generation.
transport energy without transporting mass.
perpendicular to the direction of propagation.
can change direction due to lag (refraction).
can propagate in 3 dimensions,

65
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How do we. know our core is liquid iron?

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  • Both S and P waves are observed in the hemisphere where the quake was generated.
    • On the far side of the Earth from the quake, only P waves are observed (because S waves do not transmit through fluids)
66
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Albedo

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Reflectivity of the earth surface, life made it less reflective

    * During the winter, the planet is highly reflective, high albedo 
    * During the summer, the planet has a low albedo
67
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Electrical Storms:

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Arrise when you have violent updrafts in atmosphere

68
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The Oparin-Haldane hypothesis

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  • Started with simulated ocean which is hated and partly evaporated
    • Evaporated water enter stimulated early earth atmosphere
    • Atmosphere was electrified
    • Water was cooled and spererated from original water
    • Water turned brown because it was rich in organic material (amino acids)
    • No life was formed
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RNA world hypothesis

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  • DNA and Proteins are very completcatled things, therefore what if RNA was the pre-curser
    • Originally, scientists thought that proteins were the only biological molecules capable of catalysis.
    • In the early 1980s, two groups found that RNAs can also act as catalysts.
    • This class of catalytic RNAs are known as ribozymes
70
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When did life occur?

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may have evolved as early as 4.2 billion years ago, defiantly had life 3.7 billion years ago

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Hydrothermal vents and hot springs

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Could provide a gradient from high to low energy, allowing organic molecules to survive

72
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Biogenesis

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the idea that all living things come from pre-existing living things. One common ancestor

73
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Oparin

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Said spontaneous generations occurred at least once but life wiped out the conditions of early earth (Russian)

74
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Haldane

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Earths early atmosphere was exposed to a lot of lightning. (British)

75
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Thomas Gold

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Life may reside deep beneath the earth in oil wells

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Alfred Wegener

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Introduced term Pangaea (German)

77
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Abraham Ortelius

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First to speculate that South America and Africa were once connected

78
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Edward Suess

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Europe and North Africa were once connected but were superheated by ancient ocean ( Tethys). Based on distribution of marine fossils

79
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That fern

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Glossopteris

80
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Antonio Sinder-Pellegrin

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contentions did drift but due to biblical flood

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Sediment thickness

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is least on the elevated mid line ridges

is highest near the continents where. the ocean is oldest

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Harry Hess

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Proposed. that new ocean floor is created at the mid ocean ridge. Spreads outward laterally

83
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remanent magnetism

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created when basaltic magma rises from mid ocean ridge and cools, iron aligns itself with the magnetic field. Pink represents normal magnetic orientation, brown represents reversed. Stiped because crust is being pulled laterally at ocean ridge

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Convergent plate boundary

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two plates collide creating mountains and. deep sea trenches

85
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Transform plate boundary

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Occurs at mid ocean ridges, pulled in opposite directions

86
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Types of rocks

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  • Igneous: Molten material and lava
    • Metamorphic rocks: High pressures
    • Sedimentary rocks: Bits of other rocks
      • Most abundant
87
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Glomar challenger

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Spy ship disguised as a science ship

88
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The Chikyuis

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  • the latest, greatest drill ship devoted to science
    • Japanese ship
    • 7km below the sea bed
89
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Terrigenic sediment

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is produced by the break down of rocks on land

* Most abundant type 
* Tend to get trapped by the continents
90
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Biogenic sediment

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is produced by organisms.

* Most of the seafloor is biogenetic

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Hydrogenic sediment

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is produced in place by chemical reactions in seawater or within the upper sediment

92
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Volcanogenic sediments

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are produced from the ejecta of volcanic eruptions.

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Cosmogenic sediments

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are produced from cosmic debris that constantly bombards the Earth.

94
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  • Physical weathering
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  • Physical weathering breaks big chunks of rock into little chunks of rock without changing the chemical composition.
    * Water expands by 10 percent when it freezes
    * Higher latitudes
95
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  • Chemical weathering
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  • Chemical weathering breaks down rock by chemical alteration
    * Chemical weathering occurs because water and carbon dioxide combine to make carbonic acid
    * Carbonic acid eats away at rocks, and the dissolved byproducts wash out to sea.
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Ooze

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Rich in biogenic debris (greater than 30% by weight)
can be calcareous or siliceous
Oozes can be classified according to the dominant group within them, e.g. a radiolarian ooze.

97
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Coccolithophores

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produce CaCO3shells. Sheed plats called coccoliths

98
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Two other important CaCO3 producing groups

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Foraminifera and pteropodsare

99
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opal producing groups

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Radiolarians, Diatoms, Silicoflagellates

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