sábado, 7 de marzo de 2009

Materials in the atmosphere,hydrosphere and litosphere

the atmosphere is made up of mostly gaseous materials.there are also some liquid ans solid materials,like the minute drops of water and ice that made up the clouds.
as far as we are concerned the most important material in the atmosphere is the air.
air is not a gas but a mixure of gases.
it is made up of 78% nitrogen,21%oxygen and 1% other gases.

The hydrosphere or hydrosphere [1] (of Greek the hydros: water and sphaira: sphere) describes in Earth Sciences the material system constituted by the water that are low, and on the Earth surface.
The water that conforms the hydrosphere distributes between several compartment that in sequence from largest to smallest volume is: The oceans, that cover two thirds with the terrestrial surface with a typical depth of 3000 to 5000 meters.
The glaciers that cover part with the continental surface. Mainly both caps glaciers of Greenland and the Antarctic, but also glaciers of mountain and volcano, smaller extension and thickness, in all the latitudes.
The surface run-off, a very dynamic system formed by rivers and Lagos.
The underground water, that is contracted on porous rocks of more or less universal way.
In the atmosphere in the form of clouds.
In the biosphere, forming part of plants, animal and human beings

Litosphere or the lithospere:
[1] (of Greek λίθος, " piedra" and σφαίρα, " esfera") it is solid the superficial Earth layer, characterized by his rigidity. It is formed by the terrestrial crust and the contiguous zone, most external, of the residual mantle, and “it floats” on the asthenosphere, “a soft” layer that comprises of the mantle upper. It is the zone where one takes place, in interaction with the asthenosphere, the Tectonics of plates. The lithospere is fragmented in a series of tectonic or litosféricas plates, in whose edges the endogenous geologic phenomena are concentrated, like the magmatismo (including the vulcanism), the seismicity or the orogénesis. The plates can be oceanic or mixed, covers partly by crust of continental type.
According to the type of crust that contains they distinguish two types of the lithosperes:
The oceanic lithospere: She is the one that is formed by oceanic crust and residual mantle. It sets up the bottoms of the oceans and has an average thickness of 100 km but in the great mountain ranges that there are at heart of the oceans, denominated the dorsal South Sea islanders, its thickness is of only 7 km.
The continental lithospere: She is the one that is formed by continental crust and residual mantle. She is the one that constitutes the continents. It has an average thickness of about 150 km.

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