Chapter 5: The Biogeochemical Cycles
Chapter 5: The Biogeochemical Cycles
Chapter 5: The Biogeochemical Cycles
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<strong>The</strong> Tectonic Cycle<br />
• Three types of plate boundaries<br />
– Divergent, convergent, transform faults<br />
• Divergent plate boundary<br />
– Occurs at a spreading ocean ridge, where plates<br />
moving away from one another<br />
– New lithosphere produced<br />
– Known as sea floor spreading, produces ocean<br />
basins<br />
Fossil records - Basin and range. This is typical of the land forms we see across the entire rocky mountain/north american continent - it was<br />
once entirely under sea water!
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