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Sediment ooze found in the abysal plain, made from plankton and broken shells
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Biogenous ooza
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Magnese nodueles
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Hydrogous
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How does formation of hawiian islands support the theory of plate tectionics?
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Oceanic plate moves over mantle plume and "hot spot"
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How is heat being generated from inside the earth?
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Radio active decay of Uranium inside the core and mantle
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Shows ancient magnetic feild directions trapped in volcanic rock
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Paleomagnetism
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The solar system formed from the graviatational collape
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Nebula
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Young island found on the mid ocean ridge south of ice land
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Surtsey
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Type of sediment deposit found at base of submarine canyon-gradded bedding
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Turbidite
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Most expensive fish
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Blue fin Tuna
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Used as a stabilizer in foods
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Agar-Agar
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Study weather, climate and hurricane
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Meterology
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New ecosystem based on chemosynthetic bacteria that eat H2S gas and found in the rift valley
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Hydrothermal vent ( black smokers)
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What force is driving plate movements?
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Convection currents of heat within mantle
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Transform
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san andres fault ( plate boundaries)
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Outer core
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Molten rock & S Wave cant go through- liquid
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