Convergent boundary

describes how convection currents can cause hot magma to reach the surface along divergent plate boundaries. Iceland, in fact, is located on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, which is exactly that type of divergent plate boundary. This is the beginning of the rock cycle where brand new rocks on the Earth’s surface form to replace other rocks that are lost because of the subduction of sinking plates at convergent boundaries, as also described in the “Nutshell” article. What is unique about the process as…

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facing the effects of overpopulation and the process called urban sprawl appearing more often (Randolph). This urban sprawl is a direct result of overpopulating a region with an inadequate room for growth (Randolph). It involves stretching the urban boundaries further and further, thus consuming precious farm land and many other types of land use (Randolph). This realization of a population and space crisis is what has driven only a few cities in the United States (US) to adopt a regional city…

mountain range formation, and many other geologic phenomenons. How these deformations manifest themselves on the earth depends on how the interaction of two plates occurs at their boundaries. Each type of plate movement, divergent, lateral and convergent, generates distinct geologic processes and landforms. At divergent boundaries, two oceanic plates separate,…

Who was Alfred Wegener? Alfred Wegener was born in Berlin, Germany on November 1, 1880. He was a meteorologist (a person who studies the atmosphere and its weather (Meteorology, n.d.)) and geologist (a person who studies about the Earth’s history through rocks, layers of soil, etc. (Geology, n.d.)). In the early twentieth century, Wegener championed the continental drift theory. In 1904, he attended University of Berlin, where is he studied natural sciences also, received his doctorate in…

other smaller boundaries such as the Philippines and the Scotia plates. The plates move all over the place, and the speed of the plates varies. Sometimes they can be as slow as two centimeters per year, and other times they can move as fast as ten centimeters per year. The area where the two plates meet with each other is called a boundary. There are three distinct ways these boundaries move with each other. One the three types are called convergent boundaries. Convergent boundaries are…

A: Analysis of Event Analysis of the tectonic movement or process involved The Christchurch earthquake in 2011 was a result of a transform boundary. Transform boundaries are when two separate plates slide past each other in their movement. During this process of movement, lithosphere is neither created nor destroyed. Many of these transform boundaries are found on the seafloor. This slide of plates can often lead to major earthquakes. In the central south island of New Zealand, consisting of…

that can erupt to spew molten rock everywhere. A volcano can be formed in different ways like hotspots or tectonic plates. The tectonic plates can form volcanoes by forming convergent or transform boundaries. A convergent boundary is when two tectonic plates collide into each other, forming mountains. The transform boundaries form mountains when they slide into one another. Hotspots are formed when the magma is forced up to the Earth's surface. Before Mount St. Helens erupted, there was an…

this geological region evidently experienced uplift. This uplift was due to a mountain building episode that occurred between the Silurian and the mid-metazoic. This event occurred when a continental crust collided with oceanic crust, at a convergent boundary, it causes crust to displace inland on the continental crust while the oceanic crust falls below the other plate via subduction. When subduction occurs the pressure from below causes volcanoes and mountains to form further inland. This…