Sentences with phrase «stable earth crust»
Stuff not crashing into other stuff out there all the time; fewer harmful weather patterns on Earth; a more stable Earth crust.
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«The atmosphere, the oceans, and the crust of the Earth were acting as a stable, interlinked system.»
Geologists don't agree on whether the infant Earth's surface was hot and molten or stable and cool — or even when the first solid crust formed.
Using super-distant, super-bright radio sources, such as quasars, as a wallpaper of stable reference points, this system of radio telescopes helped scientists measure the tiny shifts in the Earth's crust caused by continental drift and clock the movements of the atmosphere and oceans.
In contrast to the constant crustal movement seen on Earth, Venus is thought to undergo periodic episodes of plate tectonics, in which the crust is subducted rapidly within a few million years separated by stable periods of a few hundred million years.
No icecaps is the most stable state and accounts for about 90 % of the earth's history after the crust cooled and ocean formed.
A leading theory, presented by Dr. Bill McGuire, Hugh Tuffin, J. Maclennan, Peter Huybers and many others is that changes in stress to the Earth's crust caused by the loss of billions of tons of mass by ice sheets and the displacement of those billions of tons into the world's ocean system spurred previously stable magma systems into a chaotic displacement.
There is a source of CO2 in the carbonates in the crust of the earth and a smaller amount of other carbon based minerals that is more or less permanently stable.