• Question: will the climate change affect the geoloy of uor planet

    Asked by david7 to Susana, Sam, Ed, Dave, Ben on 19 Jun 2013.
    • Photo: David Briggs

      David Briggs answered on 19 Jun 2013:

      Well, climate change won’t change the rocks too much, but it will certainly change where they are – as the temperature rises, the ice caps will melt and the sea levels will rise.

      So some rocks that were above the sea with be underwater, and the earth and sand that is on the land might get washed away by the new higher sea levels

    • Photo: Susana Teixeira

      Susana Teixeira answered on 19 Jun 2013:

      Most likely, yes. Ice melting in parts of the planet, while in others ice forming. Sea levels changing, larger extensions of desert forming, all these examples are changes to the geology and are all possible with climate changes.

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