Geoforming Processes | Part 1 | Internal Geodynamics

Our planet is not a dead body, complete and unchanging. It is an ever-changing system whose activity we experience all the time: volcanoes erupt, earthquakes occur, and new rocks emerge on the Earth's surface. All these phenomena, which originate in the interior of the planet, are studied in a branch of geology called internal geodynamics. This science analyzes processes, such as continental drift (https://t.me/espedition/253) and isostatic(=vertical) movement, which originate with the movement of the crust and result in the raising and sinking of large areas. The movement of the Earth's crust also generates the conditions that form new rocks. This movement affects magmatism (the melting of materials that solidify to become igneous rocks) and metamorphism (the series of transformations occurring in solid materials that give rise to metamorphic rocks).

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quartzite [ˈkwɔːtsʌɪt]

gneiss [nʌɪs]