GEOL110 : GEOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT

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GEOL110 : GEOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT

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Running head: GEOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTEvaluation of The Evidence of HeatName of the Student:Name of the University:Author Note:

GEOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT1Heat inside the earth and its origin are the two prime questions that forced researchers toconduct several experiments that can answer their question. This heat played a major role inshaping the environment and geology of the present-day earth (Huang at al., 2013). 4.54 billionyears ago the conditions of earth were not the same like it is now, it has undergone severalchanges which has finally led to sustain life. The stabilization of earth’s temperature waspossible due to the forces of nature or otherwise the forces of heat that altered earth’s outergeomorphology (Summerfield, 2014). The heat energy stored inside the earth is evident on thesurface through the eruption of volcanoes, the violent earthquakes that represent the movementof the tectonic plates over the molten magma, the tsunamis that occur due to the movement of theoceanic plates, and the hot springs. All these natural forces are a sign that in the interior of theearth, there is a strong presence of an energy that is capable enough to both stabilize anddestabilize the earth’s crust. Although, the heat energy is deep seeded in the interior of the earth,it travels to the surface through the conduction, convection and radiation (Modest, 2013).

GEOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT2Fig 1: cross-section of earth’s interior [Source: Duffy, 2011]

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