Encyclopedia of the Solar System 2nd ed

180 Encyclopedia of the Solar System convection—thunderstorms—predominate at low latitudes (where abundant sunlight falls) but a ...

Earth as a Planet: Atmosphere and Oceans 181 In contrast to seawater, most river and lake water is rel- atively fresh; for examp ...

182 Encyclopedia of the Solar System and hence are probably convective throughout. Barring ex- otic chemical or fluid dynamical ...

Earth as a Planet: Atmosphere and Oceans 183 perturbations is highly nonlinear and is determined by feed- backs in the climate s ...

184 Encyclopedia of the Solar System FIGURE 4 CO 2 concentrations (top) and temperature variations (bottom) over the last 420,00 ...

Earth as a Planet: Atmosphere and Oceans 185 exact mechanism that allows CO 2 to oscillate between the ocean and atmosphere, rem ...

186 Encyclopedia of the Solar System out in the solar system, we know that Europa, a satellite of Jupiter, has a smooth icy surf ...

Earth as a Planet: Atmosphere and Oceans 187 these emissions were steady. The individual components had complicated modulations ...

188 Encyclopedia of the Solar System detecting life on planets or satellites, both the intelligent and primitive varieties, if i ...

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190 Encyclopedia of the Solar System FIGURE 1 Blue Marble view of the Earth from Apollo 17. Earth as seen from the outbound Apol ...

Earth as a Planet: Surface and Interior 191 FIGURE 2 (a) Physiographic map of the Earth. This image was generated from digital d ...

192 Encyclopedia of the Solar System FIGURE 3 Tectonic plate interactions. Tectonic plate interactions and the three fundamental ...

Earth as a Planet: Surface and Interior 193 FIGURE 4 (a) Global altitude diagrams. At left are histograms of land altitudes and ...

194 Encyclopedia of the Solar System (e.g., erosion and weathering) have tended to rearrange, bury, or destroy pre-existing cont ...

Earth as a Planet: Surface and Interior 195 TABLE 1 Classification of Terrestrial Geomorphological Features by Scale Approximate ...

196 Encyclopedia of the Solar System gravitational and radiogenic thermal energy of the Earth (endogenic processes) powers the c ...

Earth as a Planet: Surface and Interior 197 (1–10 years). Recent work on the 100-km-long Carrizozo flow field in New Mexico, how ...

198 Encyclopedia of the Solar System FIGURE 8 (a) Classic view of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River in Arizona USA. The mas ...

Earth as a Planet: Surface and Interior 199 FIGURE 9 Desert drainage networks in Chad, North Africa. Shown here are deeply incis ...