Holmes, Robert R. Holmes, R. Geological Survey natural hazards science strategy— Promoting the safety, security, and economic well-being of the Nation: U. Geological Survey Circular —F, 79 p. Year Published: How to build a model illustrating sea-floor spreading and subduction This report describes how to build a model of the outer km miles of the Earth that can be used to develop a better understanding of the principal features of plate tectonics, including sea-floor spreading, the pattern of magnetic stripes frozen into the sea floor, transform faulting, thrust faulting, subduction, and volcanism.
Lahr, J. Year Published: This dynamic earth: the story of plate tectonics In the early s, the emergence of the theory of plate tectonics started a revolution in the earth sciences. Kious, W. Jacquelyne; Tilling, Robert I. Filter Total Items: 2. Date published: September 12, Attribution: Natural Hazards , Geomagnetism Program. Date published: May 23, Filter Total Items: List Grid.
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There is simply not enough energy aloft to have an influence on climate down where we live. Earth is surrounded by a system of magnetic fields, called the magnetosphere. The magnetosphere shields our home planet from harmful solar and cosmic particle radiation, but it can change shape in response to incoming space weather from the Sun.
A constant outflow of solar material streams out from the Sun, depicted here in an artist's rendering. This solar wind is always passing by Earth. It also provides the basis for navigation with a compass. The second image shows changes in that field over the same period. New Word List Word List. Save This Word!
A change in the Earth's magnetic field resulting in the magnetic north being aligned with the geographic south, and the magnetic south being aligned with the geographic north. Also called geomagnetic reversal. We could talk until we're blue in the face about this quiz on words for the color "blue," but we think you should take the quiz and find out if you're a whiz at these colorful terms. A Closer Look When magma rises to the Earth's surface at a mid-ocean ridge, it flows out onto both sides of the ridge, gradually cooled by the seawater.
Like tiny compass needles, the magnetic minerals in the hot magma are at first free to align themselves with the Earth's magnetic field when the magma settles into the tectonic plate, but once the lava cools below the Curie point, their orientation becomes fixed. When readings of the strength of the magnetic field are taken along sections of the ocean floor near such ridges, segments where it is anomalously high alternate with segments where it is anomalously low.
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