Day 14 in SCI110: Museum Trip

Spring 2006 Schedule
Last time: Projects and more tectonics
- Group Project Presentations
- Reviewed results of plate tectonics research from the previous day
Today:
- Museum field trip! We'll be leaving at about 9:30
- Sorry: I've not graded your projects yet
- Homework:
  - Read Chapter 22, pp. 516-528; QFT 1-5
  - Prepare your plate tectonics presentations.
- Has your pair chosen a plate tectonics projects (p. 52 in the workbook)? I'll not require a paper, although you can present one if you feel more comfortable. Your presentation should contain all the relevant information, and I'll put them on-line.
- Questions for thought, chapter 15, 1-12
- Chapter 16 -- Earth's surface -- next time.
  - Tim and Moby:
    - volcanoes
    - earthquakes
  - Principle of Uniformity (and Occam's razor, the Principle of Parsimony)
    - Diastrophism: process of deformation
      - Stresses
        
        Compressional - push
        Tensional - pull
        Shear - sidelong
      - Strains - adjustment to stresses
        
        elastic
        plastic
        fracture
    - Volcanism - movement of magma
    - Earthquakes
      - Body waves:
        
        P - Primary, compressional waves
        S - Secondary, shear waves
      - Surface waves - slower
  - Questions for thought, chapter 16, 1-5

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