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The document discusses various geological processes related to Earth's internal heat sources, including decay of radioactive elements, frictional heating, and gravitational compression. It explains mechanisms of rock melting such as decompression and flux melting, and the subsequent processes of magma formation, including intrusion and extrusion. The text highlights the significance of primordial heat and the role of tectonic movements in shaping geological activities beneath the Earth's surface.

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The document discusses various geological processes related to Earth's internal heat sources, including decay of radioactive elements, frictional heating, and gravitational compression. It explains mechanisms of rock melting such as decompression and flux melting, and the subsequent processes of magma formation, including intrusion and extrusion. The text highlights the significance of primordial heat and the role of tectonic movements in shaping geological activities beneath the Earth's surface.

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● Decay - the loss of radioactivity

because of the decay of neutrons.


THE BIGBANG THEORY

FRICTIONAL HEATING
● the heat energy released from the
friction that occurred between the
outer core and the mantle.
● The more descent into Earth's
interior,the amount of pressure
increases.
EARTH’S INTERNAL HEAT SOURCE
Purpose of Internal Heat
Gravity GRAVITATIONAL COMPRESSION
Source of Energy
● Massive pressure exerted on the
Recycling
core by overlying materials causes
Magnetic Field it to become solid, generating heat
through the process of ADIABATIC
- The planet maintains its HEATING.
temperature by the convection
current.

PHASE CHANGES

PRIMORDIAL HEAT ● Happens between the two parts of


the core.
● A pre-existing heat from accretion ● Liquid iron cools > releases heat >
● Older than the Earth and formed heats surrounding solid iron
through Inflation. melting it > repeats
● Earth was formed by the process
of ACCRETION:
○ wherein gases and dust of
cloud were attracted by ENDOGENIC PROCESSES
gravitational energy. ● A geological process that was
○ created Earth's molten formed, originated, and located
core, which traps heat. below the surface of the Earth
"Tectonic movements,
Metamorphism, Magmatism"
HEAT FROM THE DECAY OR
RADIOACTIVE ELEMENTS FORMATION OF MAGMA
● The spontaneous breakdown of an ● It forms from "Partial melting" of
atomic nucleus releases energy mantle rocks
and matter. ● As temperature rises, some
● Isotopes - same number of minerals melt and others remain
Protons but different number of solid
Neutrons. ● (600-1000) degrees Celsius
● Half-life - the time it takes for half ● Viscous consistency/ flow
of an element to decay.
> MECHANISMS THROUGH WHICH
ROCK MELTS <

DECOMPRESSION MELTING
● Usual temperature but the
pressure is reduced
● “Mantle Plume”, or at a “Mantle
Convection Cell”
● Hot enough to be close to its
melting point is moved toward the
surface, the pressure is reduced,
and “Partial melting” occurs at this
point.
● Mantle Plume - the penetration of
mantle to crust

FLUX MELTING
● Rock is close to its melting point
and coolant is added to the rock,
the melting temperature is reduced
and partial melting starts.
● Trench - the boundary between
two tectonic plates

> WHAT HAPPENS AFTER MAGMA IS


FORMED? <

INTRUSION or PLUTONISM
● magma that moves up into a
volcano without erupting.
● all sorts of igneous geological
activities taking place below the
Earth’s surface.
● Plutonites: granite (purified
polycarbonate)

EXTRUSION or VOLCANISM
● eruptions of magmatic material
that produce materials.
● Used to describe all geological
phenomena that occur on the
natural terrestrial surface, such as
the eruption of volcanoes and
creation of hot springs.
● Volcanites: obsidian, scoria

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