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Collision Plate Boundary |
Both plates are forced up creating fold mountains e.g. Himalayas |
Collide |
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Destructive Plate Boundary |
Convergent/Tensional. Friction causes oceanic crust to melt. Volcanos. Nazca under South American |
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Constructive Plate Boundary |
Divergent. Plates move apart. Volcanoes. Mid-Atlantic ridge |
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Conservative Plate Boundary |
Slide past each other. Earthquakes. San Andreas Fault |
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Stratovolcano |
Strato means layered, found at destructive pb |
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Shield volcano |
Formed by frequent, gentle eruptions of thin runny lava. Wide and low. |
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Advantages of volcanos |
Fertile soils, mining, geothermal energy, tourism, geysers, mud baths, thermal baths |
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Disadvantages of volcanoes |
Danger to health, pyroclastic flows, gases, lava, ash fall, communication, acidic water |
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Montserrat Eruption 1997 |
Plymouth and 7 villages destroyed by pyroclastic flows. No vegetation |
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Haiti Earthquake 2010 |
International migration into Dominican Republic. US army helped. |
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