Eurasian Plate

Disaster can be defined as a sudden event such as flooding’s, road accidents or natural catastrophe that cause loss of life or great damage. Earthquake is the seismic event where the earth surface shakes.On 16th September 2015 an 8.4 Richter scale hit Chilean city of Coquimbo. Where two hundred boats were destroyed and thirteen people died, the 8.4 Richter scale earthquake was the strongest earthquake to hit Chile this year. Another earthquake hit .while another earthquake hit central Nepal on…

Mid-Atlantic Ridge is in between the African Plate and South American Plate. It lies in between these two plates that are moving away from each other slowly. Although as a result of the separation of the two plates earthquakes occur and magma comes out making new crust. The magma comes out from a series of volcanoes that cool to make new crust. Crust closer to the rift is newer than the crust farther from the rift. The splitting of the African and South American Plate makes a divergent…

TECTONIC HISTORY The Smackover Formation of Texas is located in the East Texas Basin, in North-East Texas, and is “one of three Mesozoic basins flanking the northern rim of the Gulf Coastal Plain” (Foote et al., 1988, p.3). “Subsidence from rifting and crustal attenuation in addition to subsequent sediment loading results in a maximum of 23,000 feet of subsidence in the center of the basin” ( an idea originally published in Seni and Jackson,1984, quoted from Foote et al., 1988, p.3). The area…

women are last. This has been going on my whole life. I was not trying to test my experiment on this but it just happened to go along with my experiment. I defiantly wanted to see what people’s reactions were when I would take their food off their plates. I have known these people I whole life, some better than others. Before the events start, the men always stand outside the shelter house and talk about the weather and farmer stuff. The women are usually sitting around tables gossiping or…

There have been many volcano eruption occurred in New Mexico. Through these eruption we can make a prediction of what will happen in the future. I look at the Figure V1 that shows the location, age, and composition of volcanoes and volcanic rocks in New Mexico. Figure V2 shows the histogram of ages for volcanic rocks in the Jemez Mountains. Figure E1 shows the important large-scale tectonic features. After looking at Figure VI and V2 i noticed there is relationship between varies Volcano…

Alfred Lothar was a famous scientist and lived from 1880 to 1930. He was born in Berlin, Germany. He got a PhD in astronomy but soon wanted to study meteorology and paleoclimatology. He continued his work in Germany and Austria. He was most famous for his continental drift theory. Alfred Wegener stated his theory in 1912. His theory stated that all the continents were once all joined together but slowly drifted apart as time went on. He called it Pangaea. People did not believe him until the…

From being underwater to on land, volcanoes are all around. How do volcanoes affect people and the environment? Volcanoes spread ash, rock, and lava for miles once they erupt. The soil that becomes after volcanic explosions are often the richest soils on Earth. The land from what you can see around a volcano is a wonderful sight people say. There are many known volcanoes that erupt all the time and spread stuff everywhere. “We do not really have an accurate count of the world’s volcanoes, but…

Volcanoes are mountains 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…

Section 1: Plate tectonics is the the theory that the outer crust of the earth is cut up into a lot of pieces called plate tectonics. The plate tectonics move around in the mantle. The mantle is the rocky middle layer of our earth it lies right above the core. The plates are very much like a shel going around the earth. The evidence of plate tectonics began as simply circumstantial evidence one example is continental drift which is the theory that all the continents used to be one giant…

Dalton M. Stone Hannah GEOS 120 16 APR 18 Volcanoes: The Veins of Planetary Life Part One: Volcanoes are essential to function and formation of our planet. Each one, dormant or active, is able to give insight as to the creation of the world around us. With many volcanoes spanning the area known as the ring of fire, we are able to obtain information and research in a central location in the sense of a planetary scale. While volcanoes are all over the earth, if we look at a few examples, we can…