Eurasian Plate

Volcanos have been shaping and changing the way we live and how we feel for thousands of years. When you think of a volcano, you think of a destructive natural force of obsolete menace. You are right, but these volcanos can change environments and people in so many good ways. From creating rich soil for farming and beautiful environments, it almost seems that these powerful and seemingly indestructible parts of nature can make good out of bad. Okay, so lets’ look at the elephant in the room;…

past 70 years. In 1949 a massive earthquake with the magnitude of 8.1 occurred in Queen Charlottetown, British Columbia. The earthquake was caused by the seismic energy on the Queen Charlottetown fault line between the Pacific and North American Plate. This…

To begin there is one piece of crucial information that being;What is is a Fault line? A fault line is a crack in the Earth's crust in which pressure is created in the form of friction, once the rocks break under the pressure a jolt of energy released is and resulting earthquake occurs. Energy released from these geologic phenomenon are measured in a machine called a Richter Scale. The Richter Scale measures seismic waves through the ground after the initial shock in the epicenter of the…

The word volcano typically brings to mind a mountain with fire spewing forth from the summit. Therefore, a “supervolcano” would be a massive fire breathing mountain but, this is not the case. Most of Yellowstone National Park and some of the surrounding area is a “supervolcano”.While some of the largest volcanic eruptions have come from Yellowstone, it is not the only place these “mega-eruptions” have occurred There have been “mega-eruptions” in Indonesia, Chile, New Zealand, Argentina, Japan…

These amazing beautiful towers of volcanoes on the ocean floor vary in every way which only makes them more mysterious and fascinating. The first discovery of a hydrothermal vent was aboard a 3-person submersible named Alvin in 1977 at the Galapagos Rift (WHOI, 2004). This vent was a discovery of warm fluids mixing with cold ocean water rising from the ocean floor crust (WHOI, 2004). “In 1979, a second hydrothermal system was discovered along the East Pacific Rise” (WHOI,2004). This discovery…

How Geo-processes Change the Surface of the Earth “Volcanologists have identified the existence of more than 40,000 volcanoes on Earth”(1). Volcanoes are not the only factor in the changing of the Earth’s surface. There are multiple reasons for the Earth to change. Geoprocesses including tsunamis, volcanoes, and earthquakes all contribute to affect the Earth and its surface. First, tsunamis produce transformations in the Earth’s surface. A tsunami is caused by an earthquake in the ocean. In…

the Kentucky Bend, and west to New Madrid, Missouri. This fault ultimately aligns the New Madrid Seismic zone, and it is a reverse fault. A reverse fault is when a hanging wall slides up a footwall. This is a type of convergent boundary where two plates compress together. The New Madrid Seismic zone is known historically for a series of earthquakes in 1811 and 1812. The first earthquake occurred in Northeast Arkansas with a magnitude of 7.5. This was on December…

would take a look into it. The full term describing this amazing underwater creation is “hydrothermal vents.” Basically these vents are hot springs produced from underwater volcanoes, kind of like geysers that form on land. These vents form where two plates pull apart and lava covers the sea floor forming an entirely new floor than what was previously there. These vents were first discovered in 1977 near the Galapagos Islands, near the Galapagos Rift, by scientists diving in a submarine named…

To begin, a streak was performed on two TSA plates and a blood agar plate using the three-sector streak technique from the unknown culture tube to isolate the two unknown bacterial colonies. The plates were then incubated for 12 hours at 37 ̊C. The blood agar plate was used to create a greater contrast in color to help distinguish between bacterial colonies by size and color. Two distinct colonies could be seen growing on the blood agar plate shown in figure 1. The smaller, opaque colored…

the surface, resulting in a devastating catastrophe. The event was first thought to be related to the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault but actually occurred on the newly discovered Leógâne fault located near the Caribbean and North American tectonic plate boundaries.…