Plate tectonics

Kamchatka. I find the subject of geology very fascinating and I plan on choosing it as a major but I especially find the geology of Kamchatka to be very interesting. In my presentation, I will be discussing the history of the Kamchatka Peninsula, the tectonic plates and the ring of fire, and some of my favorite volcanos in Russia. On the far eastern side of Russia, there is a 270,000-kilometer peninsula that houses all the volcanos in Russia called the Kamchatka Peninsula. Kamchatka, like…

I made based on my thorough enjoyment and fascination of the physical aspect of geography at GCSE, particularly learning about volcanoes, earthquakes and the mighty forces that shape the planet to what it has become today. My curiosity about plate tectonics and rock formations led me to segue from Geography to Geology, a department at the college where I found myself most enthralled. Learning about the mighty processes that our planet went through, and will go through, with or without the human…

Los Angeles sits between two tectonic plates, the Pacific plate and the North American Plate, and the most notable fault line is the San Andreas. Researchers at United States Geology Service predict there is a 7 percent chance of an 8.0 magnitude earthquake in the next 30 years. The last “big quake” LA had was…

sits on the great Antilles. The Island sits on the microplate of Gonave. The Gone is the largest of the four microplates that sit at the Centre of the Caribbean plates and North America . The Gonave plate is situated at the strike-slip faults. The strike-slip faults are located at the Enriquillo Plantain Garden fault zone (Caribbean Tectonics, http://caribbeantectonics.weebly.com/caribbean-microplates.html). The geology of Haiti consists of igneous rocks from a volcanic island arc, and marine…

What is a Marine Biologist? According to Merriam Webster “marine” means of or relating to the sea or the plants and animals that live in the sea. A biologist is a scientist that studies things that are biotic, therefore, making the word “Marine Biologist” mean the study of ocean life. Approximately 70% of the earth is covered by water, while the rest is land. A marine biologist has a significant profession by studying the life in the ocean and all of its secrets. The secrets in the ocean could…

where water flooded, dry steam beds, sad bars, torn sediments of mountians creating clifs with water falls, wiper out canyons, carver ripple marks. Cause of Plate Techtonics 6.) Most of earths movement is caused by the thermal convection currents in the mantle. This causes hot lava to rise and cool lava to sink. The flooding magma causes the plates to move along with them. The convection currents are caused by the intence heat of the core and the cool air in the lithosphere. During this change…

long as he and the other rocks started to break down. He then succumbed to the pressure of Earth and went in the fiery depths of Earth’s mantle. He wasn’t there long however as magma was forced up to replace where two tectonic plates were forced upwards. The collision of these plates caused a mountain to be formed. On top of that mountain, glaciers were formed and poor Rockington was just dust inside of the…

Earthquakes occur deep below the surface at locations called hypocenters or focuses (Marshak 350). This is where the fault motion originates causing an earthquake. The Nazca plate subduction zone is an active fault, meaning earthquakes are common and produced more frequently in this region compared to inactive faults, or places where the fault has not slipped in some time. During an earthquake, body waves radiate across the…

01/12/2014 Trans-Pecos Province Magma Types Nathanial Matis Abstract The Cretaceous was the starting point when the Laramide Orogeny began to fault and fold as a result of tectonic activity which pushed the Farallon plate into the North American plate forcing the subduction of the Farallon. This subduction caused the plate to melt and form magma that either formed laccoliths, or intruded country rock with different igneous compositions. These compositions ranged from alkaline to mafic to…

Australia’s natural environment is NOT unique. This is a statement to which I determinedly accept may be not correct. Australia has numerous extraordinary elements which different nations do not possess. Australia deserves to be known as one of the most biologically diverse countries on the planet. It is home to more than one million classifications of plants and creatures, a considerable lot of which are discovered no place else on the planet, remarkable and impressively unique landforms and…