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| Georges Méliès -1902- Le Voyage dans la Lune | Harrison Schmidt, Apollo 17, 1972 |
For next class (4Sep08) read the two online Plate Tectonics primers:
http://www.learninggeoscience.net/free/00040/index.htm
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/dynamic.html#anchor3819844
Questions:
Where would you expect to find the oldest rocks on Earth? How about the youngest?
Where does the energy come from to change the surface of our planet?
How can we learn about the processes active at the time of the EarthÕs formation?
One text for the course:
The Big Splat, or How Our Moon Came to Be by Dana Mackenzie (2003) Wiley
Earth and Planetary Sciences, McGill University
last modified : 31 August 2008 by Bill Minarik