Eurasian Plate

Mount St. Helens By Kyle Lockhead Volcanoes destroy and volcanoes create. The catastrophic eruption of Mount St. Helens on May 18, 1980 was devastating. It shows the destructive power of a volcano. Yet, over a time span longer than human memory. Volcanoes have played a key role in forming and modifying the planet we live on. More than 80 percent of the Earth's surface is from a volcano and the eruption from Mt St. Helens is big part in the environment but the mountain of Mt St. Helens will never…

Alfred Wegener is the man that introduced us to the Continental Drift Theory. He spent many years looking for clues from the past to support his idea of drifting continents. Alfred discovered many plants and fossils in many different Continents that where supposedly all together, at one time when they were together it was called Pangaea (Pangaea is the name for what included all current land masses, believed to have been in existence before the continents broke apart during the Jurassic…

May 22nd, 1960 in the afternoon at 7:11, people in Chile would lose their lives, because of a 9.5 magnitude earthquake. This catastrophe occurs when the Nazca plate released tension and descended 15 meters under the South American plate. Since the earthquake occurred in the middle of the Pacific Ocean it resulted with horrible tsunamis hitting the coast of Chile, Hawaii and Japan. This earthquake was enough to leave people homeless and dead. The destruction cost millions of dollars. Lastly, the…

Coliscan easygel nutrient broth was stored in the freezer. Around 24 hours prior to sampling, the broth was moved to the refrigerator to thaw. The sampling procedure follows the procedure stated in the Coliscan Easygel Instructions. When we were ready to begin sampling, the thawed broth was placed into a cooler. We started sampling at Cornerstone pond then move to the Wyoming site, then downtown Grand Rapids, then Plainfield, and then Versluis lake. The procedure for Cornerstone pond and…

In the first article, “Earthquake Kills Scores in Mexico,” we find some background on how Mexico city was destroyed by an 8.1 magnitude earthquake. The tragedy made the first page of the New York Times on September 20, a day after the disaster happened. According to the article, more than 40 buildings collapsed throughout the city. Many people were trapped under the rubble of the fallen buildings. Mexico was first built on top of a lake. This makes for a slightly different urban structure than…

Volcanoes 1. “A volcano is a rupture in the Earth’s crust which allows magma/ash/gases to escape from beneath the surface. When magma reaches the surface of the Earth, it is called lava” (). 2. Volcanoes happen around the frame of tectonic plates, causing the plates to move away or crash into one another. 3. When material is much warmer than its atmosphere, and explodes onto the base of a planet or moon from the inside, a volcano occurs. Topic #2: What Causes a Volcano to Erupt? 1. Magma is…

Northwest was hit by a 45 second, 6.8 magnitude intraslab earthquake called the Nisqually or “The Ash Wednesday” earthquake. The Nisqually earthquake occurred when the Juan de Fuca plate subducted under the North American plate, this quickly released the built up strain. This was caused by mineral changes as the plate moved farther into the mantle. The Nisqually earthquake hit the southern end of Puget Sound causing damage to the ports of Seattle and Tacoma. Most of the property damage…

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created and formed by the active subduction zone beneath it. The subduction zone consists of the Australian plate and the Eurasian plate squeezing together at such force that the Australia plate slides beneath the Eurasian plate. The Mount Tambora eruption was caused by the convergent boundary where the Australian and Eurasian plates moved towards each other and clashed so the Australian plate slipped underneath creating a trench and increasing pressure. When Mount Tambora…

Location of Nepal Nepal is roughly has a rectangular in shape. It runs in direction of northwest-southeast, expanding about 850km from west to east, and 200 km from north to south. There are eight of world’s ten highest mountains, including Mount Everest, which is known as the highest one in the world located at the foot of the Himalayas, Nepal. Map of Nepal and Neighbouring Countries Having a border line of 2400 km, Nepal is fenced by China to the north and India to the east, west and south…