Category: Earth and Space Exploration

“For this activity, you will be reviewing the geological time scale in the module reading assignment from the Geological Time chapter in the PRI Digital Atlas of Ancient Life –online textbook and the Earth History chapter from the OER Commons Earth Science textbook. Use the images of the geologic time scales in your readings to…

“For this activity, you will be reviewing the geological time scale in the module reading assignment from the Geological Time chapter in the PRI Digital Atlas of Ancient Life –online textbook and the Earth History chapter from the OER Commons Earth Science textbook. Use the images of the geologic time scales in your readings to…

Introduction: Review the text on hotspot volcanism and recall that hotspots produce a string of dormant volcanoes behind an active volcano. Because we know the age of the volcanoes and their distance from the hotspot, we can use the dormant volcanoes produced by a hotspot to determine the speed and direction that a tectonic plate…

Introduction: Review the text on hotspot volcanism and recall that hotspots produce a string of dormant volcanoes behind an active volcano. Because we know the age of the volcanoes and their distance from the hotspot, we can use the dormant volcanoes produced by a hotspot to determine the speed and direction that a tectonic plate…