Chapter 8 Images

8.1 Moving in a rainstorm

8.2 Aberration of starlight

8.3 A Foucault pendulum

8.4 The Earth moves

8.5 The oblate Earth

8.6 The Coriolis effect

8.7 Circulation patterns

8.10 The age of the Earth

8.12 Earth's magnetic field

8.13 Magnetic field reversals

8.14 Density versus depth

8.15 The Earth's interior

8.16 The crust of the Earth

8.17 Continental motion

8.19 Sea floor spreading

8.20 Earth's crustal plates

8.21 Plate boundaries

8.22 Crust formation and destruction cycle

8.24 Atmospheric temperature

8.25 The greenhouse effect

8.26 Mount St. Helens

8.27 Antarctic ozone hole

8.28 The Van Allen belts

8.29 Earth's magnetosphere

8.30 An aurora borealis

8.32 Global auroral images

Bonus Image: Aurora seen from the space shuttle

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