• Geomorphology - study of Earth's landforms
  • geologic processes that slowly shapes the landscape
  • opposing sets of processes occur to create relief (like mountains) in the landscapes:
    • internal and external
      • building and destroying
  
  

tectonic processes - converging plates - diverging - gradational process - depositional process -

Structure of Earth

• series of layer or zones
  
  
  
  
  
• Mantle -
  
  
  
  
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• Oceanic crust -
  
  
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Composition of the Earth's Crust

• Most common elements in Earth's crust
  
  
  
  
• Minerals -
  
  

  Properties: color,luster, hardness, fracture patterns, etc.