Week 3

Question 1

Coastal subsidence

Answer 1

Ghost forests, using relative and absolute age to determine times between earthquakes.

Question 2

Interseismic earthquake

Answer 2

Uplift of sea level, shortening at playes

Question 3

Coseismic earthquake

Answer 3

Subsidence ofsea level, extension of plates. Tsunami after, about ~1m drop of sea level

Question 4

Coseismic

Answer 4

Time during earthquake (seconds to mins)

Question 5

Interseismic

Answer 5

Time detween earthquakes (100s of yrs)

Question 6

Plate tectonic

Answer 6

Relative motion between plates (millions of years)

Question 7

Uniformitarianism

Answer 7

Stressors and effects will continue to, to occur as they gave time and time again

Question 8

Relative age

Answer 8

I.e. my parents are oldee than me

Question 9

Principle of uniformitarianism

Answer 9

The present is the key to the past

Question 10

Principle of superposition

Answer 10

In a sequence of strata, the bed js on the bottom

Question 11

Absolute age

Answer 11

I.e. i am xx years old