Intnor of the Earth
Earth isnot a monolith
Elements
-Minerals Rocks
-
-
latsurfaces (atsurface) I Interior +
Enterior
less
Element
as a whole plane as Fault's cust ~
heavy element,inmust bt
inc towards the core
Fe, O2, Si, elementall 02. Si, Al, Iron
Mg
->
↓ ! density Ias
Strist; Yo"Sy is one
11%
45%28%
Law move towards the
cose.
e
90% of earth go
the
cust
--
IF, Nil Heavier elements interious
of earth
-
102, 3i)
lighter elements-surface/superficial layers.
Thus earth has
/
Density based
stratification) explained by Nebular Screation Process)
Minerals:pasic materialsof
building Earth
the
cower
mandatory
Properties
-
-
M
reallya organis (will
wall norhave
-
carbons
cytalline elefinite structure of atoms.
DifferentTypes of Minerals:
①Silicates?) majorly found Earth
in must
Eg: Quartz /second hardestsubstance known to mankind
②
sulphates
Eg:Gypsum /calcium sulphate)
3) Carbonates
-> Calcite /calcium Carbonate
is Havide (1) -> Sac (Nac
St Metals
Native ->
Gold, platinum
6) Silicate
Minerals:(mostly found on Earth surface, I with depths
type of silicates:
->
Quartz
↑abundance with
-> Alkali
feldspar depth
-
plagio clase 11
Density*
-
Mila.
Melting Pointy I,As one down tep and
->
Biolite you
Barkness ↑ pressure "
> smphibole
->
Hardness -
Pyrosene3 ManHe
->
t
->
-
divine -Rigidity
semimolten
state I Jelly likel
I compressable
ROL?
Mechanical Aggregate ofMinerals
Doss nothave a definite
properties
they are the mintures.
classificationof rocks on the bass of Genesis/formation:
I primary)
Igneous rocks sedementary Rocks Metamorphic Cocs
found by
-
->
cooling accumulationI
dus to deposition Li
forward dus todrastic
or solidificationof littification
Ie ransformationof either
8
lava.
magiod or -
-
fusing resulting inremoval of egneous/sedimentary
rocks
↓
↓
water
under intense tmp/pressure
volcanic outsid onygen, or both
s have
material earth
-
different layers/contains fossils) -
converts
inside earth Eg:limestone -> marble
- forms into
forms intrusive entrusive
Will never be
crystalline.
sandstone ->
Quartzite
LOUS rocks.
Ens Sandstons, Mudstone, Limestone
b
Ifpressure isdominant
have
won't
layers/ fossils Dynamicmethmosperian
I
crystallin in nature.
Eg:Shall/ mudston slate
->
If temp is dominant
D
Metamorphism
contact
Eg:Shall/ mudstone Phyllite
-
* Iftemp and
pressure acting together: *
Eg:Shall/ mudstone Schist.
->
have have
A
Metamorphicrocks won't
layers;they grooves not
layers
won'thave fossils
won't be
cystalline
Igneous cocss acc to
proportion of silica
SSiamtdownwaSee
silicalnon Intrusive Entrusive
ferromagnesian
·
>65%( Granite
silicates Phyolite
65%
-
55%/less NEMS) DIO2H sudesit
55%-45%. (FMSI Basalt
Gabaso
<40% I High FMS) peridodite Komatite
A Dominantcols of oceans -> Basalt (FMS)
common rock
of incisio
continents -> Audesite
Interior -
Granin, Dionite