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Table 1.1
Summary of the features found on
30 major interfaces of Earth.
Atmosphere
Ice
River
Seawater
Continental
Oceanic
(air
water)
water
crust
crust
Atmosphere
Atmospheric
ABL on
Gaseous exchanges
ABL on ocean
ABL
(air
water)
air masses
ice
surfaces
Weathering and
interact
surfaces
soil plumbing
Ice
Ice streams
Glacier
Ice
Glaciers
Icebergs
termini
shelves
Ice caps
Icebergs
River water
Channel
Plumes
Landscape
Underflows
confluences
Jets
evolution
Turbidity
River deltas
Erosion
currents
Estuaries
Transport
Underflows
Deposition
Seawater
Oceanic
Shelf
Ocean
water
(benthic)
(benthic)
masses
seabed
seabed
interfaces
interfaces
Continental crust
Major
Major
crustal
thrust
faults
faults
Oceanic crust
Oceanic
transform
faults
Mantle
Lithosphere
Major
Major
faults
faults
Asthenosphere
Major
faults
Mantle
Lithospheric plate
Asthenosphere
Magma melt
Fe-Ni liquid
Fe-Ni solid
Atmosphere
As
Lava and
(air
water)
continent
pyroclastic
flows
Ice
As
Jokelhaups
continent
River water
As
Phreato-
continent
magmatic
explosions
Seawater
MOR
As
As mantle
Pillow
plumbing
continent
lavas and
volcanic
gasses
Continental crust
Major
As
As mantle
Volcanoes
thrust
continent
and their
faults
plumbing
Plume
heads
Oceanic crust
MOHO
As
MOR and
MOR and
Usually no
continent
oceanic
oceanic
differential
volcanoes
volcanoes
motion
Plume heads
Plume
heads
(cont.)
 
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