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(For context, this is for a science fiction novel in which a chunk of an earth-like planet is expelled. I suppose the nearest real-world situation would be a large meteorite strike.) Suppose an impact,...
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I've been learning about seismic discontinuities, mainly the 5 defined ones - Conorod discontinuity, Mohorovicic discontinuity, Repetti discontinuity, Gutenberg discontinuity, and Lehmann ...
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I need to do a "how do different 'Earth's spheres' interact with each other" and I'm trying to figure out how the hydrosphere would affect the lithosphere if the ozone layer were to ...
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I have a very basic doubt regarding what the tectonic plates mean. In Wiki article Subduction is defined as: Subduction is a geological process in which the oceanic lithosphere is recycled into the ...
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My understanding of the LAB is that it represents the point in the earth where the mantle undergoes a temperature activated mechanical change. The temperature of the boundary depends on the melting ...
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I am a high school student, my question is about the collision between the Indian Plate and the Eurasian Plate. When this happens what happens to the area of the Asian continent. Does it increase or ...
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I knew so far that, the classification of crust as SiAl-SiMa, vs. classification of crust as Continental-Oceanic; are completely different, as told in my school geography and university paleobiology ...
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There is information which says that East European Platform sticks out at the Baltic Sea and, therefore, we can see the ordovican layer in Estonia whereas ...
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Isostatic depression is normally associated with glaciation, but can other geologic processes result in similar behavior of the lithosphere? Especially, can the weight of a volcano cause the ...
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I have been trying to figure out solution for the fourth order differential equation of flexure for a viscous plate. The fourth order differential equation for a viscous plate is given as $$Dv*\...
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The climatic system can be divided into five main components: the atmosphere, the hydrosphere, the lithosphere, the cryosphere and the biosphere. All these physical systems operate at different time ...
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