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alojapan.com/1241509/paul-hoff Paul Hoffman wins Kyoto Prize #awards #Earth&OceanSciences #Earthquake #Faculty&Staff #innovation #International #Kyoto #KyotoTopics #PeoplePlace&Planet #京都 #京都府 Paul Hoffman has been steadfast in his explorations of hypotheses that other scientists have ignored. Despite backlash against his research at various times throughout his career, the geologist and adjunct professor in UVic’s School of Earth and Ocean Sciences has made gr…

The #physics of #Earth's tides connects our everyday beach experiences to the cosmic dance of celestial bodies. This TED-Ed #animation explains how the #Moon and #Sun's gravitational pull creates those rhythmic rises and falls of #ocean #water we observe. 🌊🪐

What's fascinating is how these same tidal forces work across our solar system—squeezing and stretching #Jupiter and #Saturn's moons, creating hidden oceans beneath Europa's icy shell, and even powering Io's volcanoes.

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Earth's internal heat budget (Earth 🌍)

Earth's internal heat budget is fundamental to the thermal history of the Earth. The flow of heat from Earth's interior to the surface is estimated at 47±2 terawatts and comes from two main sources in roughly equal amounts: the radiogenic heat produced by the radioactive decay of isotopes in the mantl...

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