Questions and Answers
What are the two main sources of Earth's internal heat?
Radiogenic heat and primordial heat
What geological processes are powered by Earth's internal heat?
Mantle convection, plate tectonics, mountain building, rock metamorphism, and volcanism
What dominates Earth's total energy budget at the surface?
Incoming solar radiation
What is theorized to sustain a geodynamo which generates Earth's magnetic field?
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How far does the sensible heat absorbed from non-reflected insolation penetrate on the annual cycle?
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