Eurasian Plate

The Galapagos Island is apart of Ecuador that caused by the volcanic eruption and lava accumulation of many years ago, It’s a paradise for most adventurer. On the Galapagos have a many creatures and species even though plants and animals. So they are not in another islands and we have an example to show you all. “Galapagos tortoises” are known to be the biggest and oldest tortoises in the world. The average life span of these tortoises are 170 years or more because they are listed as endangered…

Abstract Porphyry copper deposits are important for economic value and resources. Some of the common metals found in porphyry copper deposits are gold, silver, and molybdenite. Most porphyry copper deposits can be found along the Pacific Rim and formed during the Tertiary and Quaternary periods. Porphyry copper deposits form through a series of subducting tectonic events, having a copper bearing source, and convection of hydrothermal fluids acting on an igneous intrusion. Introduction…

On March 11, 2011 Japan was rattled by a powerful earthquake and tsunami. When the tsunami hit Sendai, Japan thousands of lives were changed forever. The tsunami claimed thousands of lives, destroyed thousands of homes, businesses, and roads and left behind an excessive amount of debris. The impact of the tsunami also caused a major power outage which in turn caused a major nuclear meltdown/explosion at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. With the devastation of that day and the days…

What do you think of when you hear the word “volcano”, a prodigious eruption? The city of Pompeii (which was destroyed by lava)? The amount of volcanoes and their eruption frequencies? Well, these are the most common responses, but do you ever think of the gratifying consequences of a volcanic eruption? Well, it is true, volcanoes are commendable! The mineral and nutrients found in the rocks and ashes of the aftermath a volcano helps enrich the soil. While I’m on that topic, the article states…

Every year at least one volcano erupts and damages many things around them, but how do volcanoes effect the people and their environment? There are many different types of volcanoes such as the cinder cone volcano, shield volcano and many more but what they all have in common is that they effect the environment and the people living in it. How do volcanoes affect people and environments? There are different ways volcanoes can affect the people and the environment. It could be an active volcano,…

Throughout time, many ideas have come and gone about the movement of continents, some saying that it’s true, and some saying that it’s not. One theory, though, is the most well known and the one most people believe to be true. This is the continental drift theory, created by Alfred Wegener, a German meteorologist. Alfred Lothar Wegener was born on November 1st, 1880 to a German family. He was the youngest child of Richard and Anna Wegener. He had 2 siblings, a sister named Tony Wegener, and a…

earth quake because of what scientists were able to study and learn from it. This earthquake affected earth, caused severe damage, a large death toll, as well as created an economic impact. Studying this earthquake we are able to determine the type of plate boundary that occurred and if this was expected from this type of boundary. The Great San Francisco earthquake of 1906 remains as one of the most important…

The chain mail also incorporated mittens, which had chain mail on the back of them and leather gloves on the inside to better hold reins and weapons, and a hood with an attached ventail to protect the throat (Hanley). The surcoat was placed on top of all the armor and was a useful way to display the knight’s coat of arms, which was helpful since it was hard to distinguish knights when they put their helmets on (Hanley). The sword belt, which allowed the knight to carry his sword without actually…

unexpectedly resulted in a volcanic eruption. Lava emerged out of the fissure and began to build a cone shape, which was a volcano. Also, tectonic plates moved through the solid earth in a cycle between the crust and the mantle over very long periods of time. Plate tectonics form the Earth’s crust and are floating above the mantle. The boundaries of the plate tectonics either form mountains or volcanoes from magma beneath the surface, or are subducted and recycled back into the mantle as it…

east coast of South America. After the discovery of seafloor spreading the theory was validated in the late 1950s. Richard was one of the first scientists to prove the theory of Plate tectonics. As an expert in Crustal extension, Richard contributed more than 50 pages worth of scientific data to further prove the theory of plate…