Oceanic crust

Looking thoroughly at evidential proof of a worldwide flood, there are multiple biblical accounts, written accounts, and scientific statements that many scholars believe the claims of the catastrophic event [the worldwide flood] actually happened. Is there really evidence that proves the world wide flood actually happened that is written about in the book of Genesis? The Bible gives testimony of the Great Flood and how it covered the whole earth: “Now the flood was on the earth forty days. The…

Galápagos Rift revealed hydrothermal vents, and along with it new and unknown creatures that somehow has survived in very harsh conditions. Hydrothermal vents are most commonly found along mid-oceanic ridges, such as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and the Galápagos Rift. Seawater seeping deep into the Earth’s crust through fissures and cracks in the seafloor is heated by magma beneath the surface, causing the water to boil and rise back up to the surface. As it rises, the water dissolves and…

Scientist go on a quest to find out why volcanoes and earthquakes occur all around the margins of the Pacific Ocean. What powers these phenomena to occur can better explain how the earth was made. The Ring of Fire is the most destructive zone on the earth, its better known as hundreds of volcanoes aligned at the shores of the Pacific Ocean. 25,000 miles is how far the Ring of Fire extends from South America, Northern Coast to Alaska then down through Russia, Japan, and South East Asia all the…

system with the movement of tectonic plates. The studies also show that the planets like Mars and Venus had the same types of plates but they have not been detected for a long time. According to the geologists the major tectonic plate in the earth’s crust are Eurasian, North American, South American, the African, the Antarctic, Pacific and Indoaustralian plates. However along with the plates mentioned above there are some micro and secondary plates in the earth…

west-southwest at 2.3 centimeters per year. These two plates represent divergent plate tectonics. The plates move away from each other and magma rises up from the mantle and hardens into solidified rock. Oceanic basaltic crust is found…

This essay on supercontinents was a tough piece to write about, but it was fun and I enjoyed writing about it. I had to think scientifically, but I also had to consider the audience on writing this paper. I had to go back and ask myself multiple times if the audience would understand this and be interested in reading this. I had to ask if this was too confusing, and if it was, what could I do to make it clearer and easier for the audience understand. This was probably the toughest essay out of…

Mercury is a rocky planet and is the closest celestial body to the sun in our solar system. The planet is covered in many craters, boulders and pulverized dust. The planet lacks an atmosphere to help dictate temperature changes throughout a day, so the planet can experience many temperature swings multiple times per day. After a number of observations, it has been inferred that the planet has been geologically inactive for billions of years. There are no signs of dust storms, clouds, rivers…

Anne Petry states that Japan is a very mountainous region due in part to the collision of the Pacific oceanic crust and continental crust of Asia, in which some of these mountains are also volcanic (2003). Japan is located in the Pacific Ring of Fire, which has sixty active volcanoes of the 186 volcanoes surrounding the area. Although Japan is very mountainous, many people…

Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka and more will feel these lasting effects. This will go down in history as one of the worst acts of mother nature in the last 100 years. The Sumatra earthquake occurred between the India, oceanic, plate and the Sunda, continental, plates. Because the oceanic plates is more dense than the continental the plate, the Sumatra earthquake was created…

Indo-Australian but in the South the Indo-Australian subducts beneath the Pacific Plate. As the oceanic lithosphere subducts beneath the continental crust (or vice versa in the South), the increase in temperature and pressure causes volatiles such as water to be expelled from…