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Exercise: Locating An Euler Pole

The document contains three exercises related to paleomagnetism and seismology. The first exercise asks about the inclination difference between a rock's original position and present position. The second exercise involves plotting paleolatitudes against time from paleomagnetic data to deduce information about a continent. The third exercise is about calculating the angle of a seismic ray as it passes through an interface between two rocks with different velocities.

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Exercise: Locating An Euler Pole

The document contains three exercises related to paleomagnetism and seismology. The first exercise asks about the inclination difference between a rock's original position and present position. The second exercise involves plotting paleolatitudes against time from paleomagnetic data to deduce information about a continent. The third exercise is about calculating the angle of a seismic ray as it passes through an interface between two rocks with different velocities.

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Exercise: Locating an Euler pole

Exercise: Paleomagnetism 1

• A rock magnetized when it was 20° S of the equator has drifted to


20° N today. Its inclination differs from that of its present position by
which of the following angles?
Exercise: Paleomagnetism 2
A small area of continent has rocks of a range of ages. Their paleomagnetic directions were measured, giving
the data below (dates are accurate to about ±4 Ma, paleomagnetic directions to ±2°). Plot the paleolatitudes
against time. What can you deduce about the continent?

Age (Ma) Inclination (deg) Latitude (deg)


300 ‐54 ‐34.54
250 ‐56 ‐36.55
190 ‐55 ‐35.53
160 ‐50 ‐30.79
140 ‐38 ‐21.34
80 0 0.00
60 10 5.04
0 43 25.00
Exercise: Global seismology
A ray is travelling in a rock with a 3.00 km/s seismic velocity. The ray encounters an
interface at a 45.0° angle with a rock velocity of 4.00 km/s on the other side. At what
e the interface?
angle with respect to the normal to the interface does the ray leave the interface?
Name the incidence angle Ѳ1 and solve for the transmitted ray angle Ѳ2

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