Eurasian Plate

Dear Dr. Anthony Davis, The entire Eighth grade,including the teachers, has been thinking about going on a field trip to a very amazing and educational place. We have been thinking about going on a field trip to the Lava Beds National Monument, but to do this we would need your approval which I hope we will receive after I give you the in depth details of the educational values we would indulge in on this trip. On this field trip we would learn about the history of the formation of the lava…

Web Project 2 http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2000/fs060-00/ The most recent significant eruption of Mount Hood happened in the 1790’s shortly before Lewis & Clark passed through the area. There was less significant explosive activity around the middle of the 17ths century. After this time the volcano has been quiet and inactive. There will come a time when Mount Hood will erupt again. How will those eruptions impact us and what might they look like? Through study of Mount Hood’s past volcanic behavior…

c. 1. A whopping 8.3 earthquake lasting several minuets occurred in Chile on Wednesday. Only once a year are quakes of this size seen out of one and a half million quakes a year. Because Chile has a history of earthquakes this has made specialists keep an eye on seismic activity, enabling them to equip buildings to better uphold in the tremors. Although this massive earthquake damage toll could have been much more overwhelming, for its size it was not. Nonetheless, maintenance and cleanup…

planet with several continents that are a result of the spread of Pangea. This is understood to be the result of continental drift. Continental drift is due to the Earth’s plates (located EXTREMELY far down below Earth’s surface) shifting as a result of the heat provided by the Earth’s core which exudes to other layers, causing the plates to move, and…

made a national monument in 1932 by President Herbert Hoover. It is home to many species of animals and plants, such as the American pikas and Entaphalleas. Through the breaking apart and movement of large surface plates, the Great Sand Dunes were uplifted in the rotation of a large plate. With many volcanic eruptions, the Great Sand Dunes were born! The largest recorded volcanic eruption, La Garita Caldera, was what started the formation of the…

The Hōryū-ji Temple remain located in Nara prefecture Japan, is the oldest existing timber structure; dated from 607 AD. The temple’s construction is held up by structural elements called the Dougong, which are placed on top of large, firm and stable vertical pillars, to support the weight of upper stories, roofs and eaves. The Dougong is composed of overlapping wooden brackets; the ‘Dou’: a block placed on a column, creating space for multiple bow-shaped arms; ‘gong’, to be interlocked, which…

On 12 November 2017, northeast Iraq experienced an earthquake from the city of Halabja. According to the Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System, approximately 1,840,000 people live with within 100km of the epicenter of this earthquake in both Iraq and Iran. There have been nine reported fatalities and over 550 people injured in Iraq as a result of the earthquake. The Darbandikhan areas has been most severely impacted, with most earthquake related injuries reported in Darbandikhan, Halabja…

The Alaskan way Viaduct will collapse if an earthquake happens, but that earthquake will take many steps. These steps will got through the layers of the earth. The layers are stacked on top of eachother, like the liquids in the “Density Column lab”. The layers are inner core, outer core, mesosphere, asthenosphere, and lithosphere(upper rigid mantle, continental crust, and oceanic crust). The earth's compositional layers are inner core, outer core, mantle, and crust. The inner core radiates…

used. The first step in identifying any unknown bacterium is to grow a culture on a nutrient agar plate. This bacterium was also plated on a MAC plate, which is both selective for gram-negative bacteria and differential as well. On the NA plate, bright red colonies were present; on the MAC plate there was bacterial growth as well, but no color change was observed. This lack of color change on the MAC plate indicated that the bacteria did not ferment lactose. A Gram stain was then performed to…

northeastern Arkansas, western Tennessee, western Kentucky and southern Illinois. Southwestern Indiana and northwestern Mississippi are also close enough to receive significant shaking from large earthquakes. Despite being far away from current plate boundaries, the New Madrid Fault is a dangerous zone because of the active faults that are actually buried 100 to 200 feet deep in soft river deposited soils of alluvium, making these faults harder to study because of their location underground.…