Formation of Volcanic Islands When people think of volcanoes‚ most would imagine a deadly explosion of liquid hot magma that ruthlessly obliterates anything in plain view. If volcanoes demolish everything in sight then how did life become what it is today? Volcanoes are not just a source of destruction and mayhem‚ long before civilization‚ while the earth was still being developed its apocalyptic surface consisted of nothing but molten rock and volcanic eruptions were a common occurrence; it was
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SSCI 110 November 2011 Yosemite Introduction Yosemite National Park is without a doubt‚ one of America’s most beautiful and well-known parks. Due to the diversity of attractions the park offers‚ including high Sierra Peaks‚ the highest highway pass in California called the Tioga Pass‚ the Yosemite Valley‚ the Merced River‚ acres of high altitude backcountry‚ waterfalls‚ and some of the largest living things on earth in the sequoia groves tourists from all over the world visit. The most
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1. Wegner’s hypothesis of continental drift using the observation that the earth’s surfaces are continually changing and other evidence was that the continents had once been joined‚ and over time had drifted apart but he couldn’t explain the mechanism behind it. 2. Evidence gathered by Ewing‚ Tharp and Hess that lead to the theory of plate tectonics was: ⦁ In the early 1950s Ewing‚ with the help of Marie Tharp‚ a cartographer‚ mapped the seafloor using available echo profiles‚ the resulting mapped
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the rising magma from the mantle. The GARV is an example of where the crust has dropped down between parallel faults to form rift valleys. As the crust subducts into the mantle it melts causing igneous activity below‚ magma to rise and therefore volcanoes erupt on the surface as a result. Evidence of this volcanic activity is shown by Mount Kenya and Mount Kilimanjaro. The lava here has a low viscosity‚ it very hot (1200 C) and has a low silica content. An example
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the Pacific Ocean. In a 40‚000 km (25‚000 mi) horseshoe shape‚ it is associated with a nearly continuous series of oceanic trenches‚ volcanic arcs‚ and volcanic belts and plate movements. The Ring of Fire has 452 volcanoes and is home to over 75% of the world’s active and dormant volcanoes.[1] It is sometimes called the circum-Pacific belt or the circum-Pacific seismic belt. Eruption of Mount St. Helens on July 22‚ 1980. About 90%[2] of the world’s earthquakes and 81%[3] of the world’s largest
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This is because it recognises the importance of magma rising up from the mantle to create new crustal rock. The boundary between two converging plates is known as a destructive plate margin‚ as it is responsible for more violent seismic activity‚ volcanoes and high mountain ranges. Destructive Plate Margins Destructive plate margins can either result in collision zones or subduction zones. When a plate of oceanic lithosphere comes into contact with a continental plate the oceanic plate is subducted
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margins or move away from each other causing magma to rise and spread this occurs at divergent plate margins. These plate margins create various relief elements such as volcanoes‚ Fold Mountains‚ sea floors and many others. How they do this is not a mystery as at convergent plate margins it’s the rising of magma that creates volcanoes. Convergent plate margin consist or two plates oceanic and continental. The topographic elements that are formed here are due to three occurrence‚ oceanic-oceanic plates
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most volcanoes‚ occur where lithospheric plates are interacting 2) Main mineral and hydrocarbon resources occur in specific tectonic settings 3) Plate tectonic processes happening at depth responsible for occurrences at Earth’s surface: size and shape of oceans‚ nature and distribution of landforms‚ general climatic conditions of each of Earth’s regions Plate Boundaries - map of epicenter of significant earthquake‚ M > 3.5 - active boundaries marked by zones of earthquakes and volcanoes - earthquakes
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