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Plate tectonics is a theory about how the plates are constantly moving on top of a layer of magma that is constantly taking in old crust to recycle it this constant movement causes earthquakes, tsunamis and other geological events. The movement of the Pacific and North American plates cause the old sea floor to be replaced by the now wider North American plate. Also with the movement the continental plate was stretched as the Pacific plate pulled the continental plate to the northwest which…

underneath a small town in Haiti’s country district called Léogâne. The earthquake’s features are visually represented in Figure 2, with it placing the epicentre in the town of Léogâne. Figure 2: Map showing patterns in the earthquake and the tectonic plates surrounding it. Also as with all earthquakes there is a reduction in the intensity of shock waves which is directly related to the factors of time and distance, or even the transmission of energy 0through discontinuous materials with…

Directions: This handout serves as a guide for your write-up. The portions required on turnitin.com are noted within the document, as well as at the end. This material must be typed and submitted on turnitin.com by 11.59 pm on Wed., March 23rd (no exceptions .) PhET Lab: Intro. to Magnetism https://www.noodletools.com/noodlebib/mybib.php?highlight=2896337 Part 1: Magnetic Fields and the Earth (30 POINTS) 8. Select “show compass.” Move the compass to several positions around the magnet. Use…

The search for the legendary lost island known as Atlantis has been grabbing the attention of explorers, historians and philosophers for over 2,000 years. People to this day still argue about its location. Plato, the Greek philosopher, wrote about this ancient civilization in two of his dialogues. Although some argue that this place is fictional, there are scientific and geographical explanations as to why the city would have sunken. Also, there have been relics that were found that suggest they…

In can be seen from the above that the key to an earthquake-resistant building is strength and flexibility in the materials and structure, and of course the quality of the materials used is important. That is why earthquakes in parts of the world where houses are built in stone, such as North Africa, Nepal and Iran, are so deadly.” An 8.8 magnitude earthquake in Chile killed more than 700 people, whereas in Haiti, a less powerful earthquake measuring 7.0, killed more than 200,000.” (Imagination…

VMS deposits occur in a diversity of shapes ranging from flat lens shaped to large sheet-like sulphide mineral rich bodies (Allen, et al., 2002). The preferred environment for these deposits to form in is submarine near a seafloor opening i.e. black smokers, where hydrothermal fluids escape and precipitate on the ocean bottom (Evans & Moon, 2006). The mineralogy of Kidd Creek VMS deposits often consists out of more than 60 different ore minerals and ore-related gangue minerals, of which 90% or…

movements of our continents is called Continental Drift. This theory is supported by plate tectonics, a relatively new idea that explains the constant movement of Earth's crust. Two-hundred million years ago, our seven continents fitted together, as if part of a puzzle. These continents made up one supercontinent, known as Pangea. When Pangea began to disperse into the current continental positions the process of plate tectonics began. The first to notice the fitting of the continents was…

The Caribbean tectonic plate has a wide variety of height and depth within its borders. While all the land and islands are quite tall, the middle of the plate, that is mostly sea, is much more deep in some areas than others. Around the Yucatan Peninsula, Central America, and all the islands are gradual slopes that gain more depth the further from land-above-sea-level you get, however, from Honduras and Nicaragua to Jamaica, where there should be deeper sea, there is quite a lot of height but…

WARNING! There has been word that the Yellowstone supervolcano is about to blow. A supervolcano is like a regular volcano but the eruption is thousands of time greater than a regular explosion. The last time this volcano erupted was about 174,000 years ago. Yellowstone is still active and another eruption is possible but very unlikely. If it does happen to erupt it could end civilization. There is huge volcano under Yellowstone National Park, which is being watched 24/7. If or when this…

where the North American, Pacific, Eurasian, and Philippine plate meet, also known as plate boundaries. Japan is also located where the Pacific plate and the Philippine plate are subducting. This results in the stress building up where the two plates are subducting. How do plates move? Well, plates move when uneven heating in the mantle creates currents. This current is a convection current, and these currents create different types of plate boundaries. Divergent boundaries split apart from…