Slide 1The Deep Lead Mines of BALLARAT Slide 2 What does this image represent to you? Slide 3 And this? Slide 4 Section 500 million years ago Under the sea Slide 5 Map 500…

Slide 1 Slide 2 The hypsigraphic curve Slide 3 The submersible Alvin Slide 4 Echo sounding Seismic Profiling Slide 5 As they cool down through the Curie point, Slide 6 The…

Slide 1geologic time Slide 2 time is critical for geologic processes Rockies and Alps are ~3000 m tall Atlantic Ocean is ~5000 km across for comparison: fingernail grows…

Slide 1How do we know what happened first? Slide 2 James Hutton (1726-1797) Father of Modern Geology native of Edinburgh, Scotland educated as a medical doctor in Leiden…

Slide 1Kingdoms Slide 2 Basic Branches of Life  More than 200 years ago, Linnaeus began with only the Plant and Animal Kingdoms.  Later Kingdoms Protista, Fungi, and…

Slide 1The Origin of the Ocean The Water Planet Slide 2 Slide 3 AN OCEAN WORLD The ocean covers 71% of Earth’s surface The ocean contains 97% of the water on Earth The…

Slide 1CHAPTER 3 Marine Provinces Slide 2 Measuring bathymetry Ocean depths and topography of ocean floor Ocean depths and topography of ocean floor Sounding Sounding Rope/wire…

Slide 1 the sea floor Slide 2 seafloor water covers 70% of Earth’s surface Slide 3 seafloor deep seafloor largely unknown prior to 1950’s seafloor map from Dana (1894)…

Slide 1 Slide 2 Topography Review: Ocean Floor Models Slide 3 Activity Instructions 1. Make marks 1 cm apart up the side of the box starting at the bottom using the marking…

Slide 1 SOES6002: Modelling in Environmental and Earth System Science CSEM Lecture 5 Martin Sinha School of Ocean & Earth Science University of Southampton Slide 2 Recap…