Earth evolutionthermal cycleplate tectonicslarge igneous provincesice ageCooling and warming has occurred many times during the Earth's history. At times, the Earth has entirely frozen to form a 'snowball', while at others, it has become extremely hot, resulting in the mass extinction of species...
【解析】题干问的是：根据第 2 段，下列关于十八世纪太阳系起源理论的说法，哪一个是正确的？根据题干the origin of the solar system定位到段首句：关于太阳系起源的一个关键证据是，所有的行星都在同一个方向和几乎同一个平面上绕太阳公转，对应A选项。
D.The weight of the rock above it increased as to cause its eruption. 4. What can we infer from the last paragraph? A.Scientists can determine the eruption of volcano in advance. B.It is quite difficult to measure the weight of the Earth’s crust. ...
Understanding how species’ thermal limits have evolved across the tree of life is central to predicting species’ responses to climate change. Here, using experimentally-derived estimates of thermal tolerance limits for over 2000 terrestrial and aquatic species, we show that most of the variation in...
Climate warming can lead to dramatic changes in the earth-atmosphere system, including the phase change of water. This phase change, such as melting of ice and snow, can have significant impacts on radiation, energy, and hydrological processes. These changes can then affect large-scale dynamical...
DR. J. H. J. POOLE has kindly pointed out to me that the reference to the adiabatic gradient of temperature in my previous letter1 is capable of being understood to mean that he believes that the adiabatic gradient in a liquid heated below would not be m
Over geological time, the variation in ocean circulation intertwines with the evolution of Earth's climate system through direct and indirect processes (e.g., as summarized in Ferreira et al., 2018). As an example of direct processes, a changing MOC perturbs the pattern of heat transport, ...
years and be much like Mars. Even if the sun doesn’t engulf Earth, the increased luminosity and strong stellar wind in the later phases of its evolution would strip or boil away any remaining atmosphere or ocean. If Earth were to survive, it would be a rocky cinder orbiting a white ...
The thermal evolution history of Carboniferous source rocks is mainly characterized by the "secondary hydrocarbon generation and the main hydrocarbon generation in the late stage", which is mainly controlled by the tectonic movement of the area. The overall thermal evolution of the Qaidam Basin is ...
6). They show that this trend cannot be related to changes in the degree of fractional crystallization, but is probably related to a decreasing degree of melting of the mantle through time as Earth cooled. Their results show a progressive decrease in average melt fraction in mantle sources ...