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The Big Bang theory |
We’re still figuring it out, started 13.7 billion years ago, in the first 10-32 seconds the universe expanded to 10 to the 50 very quickly |
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400 million years later the first |
Stars appeared |
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If starts get to iron stars they |
Blow up, |
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When the star explodes it’s atoms go everywhere by chance some |
Bump into one another & becomes another element |
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Solar nebula theory has how many steps? |
6 steps |
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Step one condensation of |
Interstellar matter |
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Step 2 collapse onwards of material |
Becoming a new star |
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Step 3 counter clockwise rotation |
Where 90% of the material is concentrated in the center |
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Step 4 solid material accretes into |
Planetesimals |
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Step 5 once at a decent size |
Differentiation kicks off, heavy materials will sink and lighter material makes it sway to crust, mantle & core |
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Step 6 plantestimals collide 2 form |
Planets |
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Formation of the moon: |
2 plants collide earth sized planet hits a mars sized planet |
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The moon is chemically our |
Mantle material |
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How did we get the atmosphere? |
Out of gassing: releasing glasses from volcanism, comets and asteroids which have ice and volitile rich plantesimals, photo chemical disassociation (light rips apart the gases) |
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How did we get oceans? |
Out of gassing, ice and volitiles rich in plantesimals, and weathering the volcanic rocks goes into making our salty oceans |
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Precambrian is |
88% of geological time |
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Haden creates the |
Moon, we got bombarded by asteroids, & we form oceans and atmosphere |
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Archean |
form continents, formed the modern cores, we formed cratons (foundation 2 a continents) multiple cratons make up a continent, |