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Earth's Unique Relationship Between Plate Tectonics and Life

GEO GIRL via YouTube

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This video examines proposed links between plate tectonics and life on Earth, including how water drives tectonics and how tectonics may sustain life, shape evolution, and relate to life's origin. It also considers whether these processes could matter on other worlds.

Syllabus

Only planet w/plates & life
Link between plate tectonics & life?
Origins of water & plate tectonics on Earth
How water drives plate tectonics
How plate tectonics sustains life
Was plate tectonics required for Earth’s origin of life?
How plate tectonics drives evolution
Tectonics & life on other worlds?

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GEO GIRL

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