Home / study / science / earth sciences / questions and answers / explain what a conditionally unstable atmosphere question: explain what a conditionally unstable atmosphere explain what a conditionally unstable atmosphere is. include in your explanation, the comparison between the environmental lapse rate with the two air parcel lapse rates (the two air parcel lapse rates being the “dry adiabatic lapse rate” & the “saturated adiabatic lapse rate”). also discuss why the environment’s stability is “conditional” for this situation.

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south africa, or rather all of africa, has not been in the location in which it is nowadays throughout the geological past. after the super-continent pangaea started to break apart, gondwanaland, in which was africa, moved further south, and parts of it came to be very close to the south pole. because the climate in this part of the world is very cold due to the very dispersed sun rays in there, what is now south africa, started to freeze, and the conditions were right for the formation of glaciers. the glaciers existed up until the period when gondwanaland started to break apart and what is now africa started to move towards north, sp it warmed up and the glaciers melted.