SU-EARTHSYS11 APR032026
Last edited: April 4, 2026When there are linear planes (i.e. each row at a time), its likely an indicator of a Sedementary Rock.
types of crusts
crusts are generally lighter and more felsic than the mantle.
- continental crust two types thickened / normal
- oceanic crusts
continental drift
- animals: things that can’t cross oceans seems to
- glaciers: big rocks scratch a big hole in the bottom, thus being dragged along and draw an arrow towards the direction of movement
- coal: locations of coals are roughly matched up despite them being very far apart
detractors
- Too hard for continents to plow through
- coastline fitting has no mechanism to explain it
palemagnitism
Earth is a doppler field!
SU-EARTHSYS11 APR062026
Last edited: April 4, 2026Mid-Ocean ridge
asnthenosphere mantle raises up, creating “pillow basalt”. Sulphide small crabs f
outer core
Outer core is liquid
inner core
Inner core is solid
Three Types of Plate Boundaries
Divergent Boundaries
“Hot Plumbs push crust apart”
- hot plumb below the from the asnthenosphere
- normal faults start forming
- earth crust splits apart, became balsaltic material
- sinks down
- seafloor spread!
Convergent Boundaries
Ocean-Ocean case
- Older, colder, denser plate plunges into younger hotter plate
- Older plate (hard and dense) submerges below the younger plate
This is also why over convergent boundaries the diving plate becomes “deeper” during collisions
SU-EARTHSYS11 APR102026
Last edited: April 4, 2026earthquake energy
…plate tectonics
body waves
Travel through the earth (travel through rock).
p waves
compressional waves, “primary”. first to arrive. can travel through anything.
s waves
move the ground up and down/side to side.
surface waves
Travel through only through the surface, when body waves hit the surface this happens.
L Waves
left and right; circular path left and right. moves faster
R waves
up and down; particles underground follows a circular path up and down. “ocean waves” back and fourth.
SU-EARTHSYS11 Chapter 2
Last edited: April 4, 2026OG Theory by Wegener
evidence for continual drift
- fossil distribution
- geologic units (edges of stuff fit together)
criticism
- OG theory couldn’t explain why stuff moved
Seafloor Spreading
- mid-ocean ridges: submarine mountain ranges
- deep-sea trenches: trenches in the depth
- fracture zones: vertical cracks
Paleomagnitism
Because earth magnetic field changes, measuring sediment polarization helps us figure out where stuff moved.
The magnetic poles, unlike other planets, don’t go anywhere. But every so often they reverse.
Multi-Agent LLMs
Last edited: March 3, 2026Background
- originally, multi-agent team pre-assigns roles
- LLMs are heterogeneous, but they are treated homogeneously
- problem decomposition is hard
Eval
synergy
- weak synergy: team >= average member
- strong synergy: team >= best member
Human teams reliably achieve strong synergy IFF when expert identity is given (e.g., the teams easily know who is the expert).
Dataset
NASA moon survival / lost at seay
Rank 15 items by importance
Student body president
Different people are given different information + shared info. Hidden-profile (shared info + unique info must be paired to reveal the right one.)
