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Geologic Climate Change
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- 1Change of ClimateIncludes a winter snow decrease,
less frozen lakes/rivers, sea level rise, intense storms, and retreating glaciers - 2TroposphereWarmer at the base, colder above, causes a temperature gradient that is unstable and leads to weather
- 3ConvectionThe process to describe how Earth's climate is controlled by heat circulation in the atmosphere and oceans
- 4InundationOverwhelming flooding by the oceans
- 5Snowball Earth HypothesisRunaway albedo feedback that results in global ice impacts and a supercontinent at high latitude
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- Geology (Geology 201) Flashcards on Geologic Climate Change, created by Natasha Gidluck on 18/10/2018.
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