Plate tectonics

Laramie Project is a verbatim film directed by Moisés Kaufman and was originally a play created by the same director. The play was first performed in February 2000 and then the film debuted in January 2002. “Moisés Kaufman and members of New York's Tectonic Theatre Project went to Laramie, Wyoming after the murder of Matthew Shepard. This is a film version of the play they wrote based on more than 200 interviews they conducted in Laramie. It follows and in some cases re-enacts the chronology of…

The Laramie Project is a book motivated by the savage attack and murder of a young gay man in Laramie, Wyoming. After the homicide, members of The Tectonic Theater Project, and its creator Moisés Kaufman went to Laramie. They interviewed the townspeople for their remembrances of the crime. What they recall about the crime and what life is like in the mid-western city. Residents disclosed diverse perspectives of the brutal attack. Many offered their own explanations to the motivation of the…

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its shape. The three most important reasons are tectonic plates, glaciation, and weathering and erosion. Tectonic plates in CT formed three major landforms. One of the three landforms is the Appalachian mountains. This mountain range is a convergent boundary. Convergent boundaries means that the two plate collide into each other pushing up the land and create the mountains (as shown in the diagram). Finally, the last landform the tectonic plates created is the CT river valley or rift valley.…

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…

Who was Alfred Wegener? Alfred Wegener was born in Berlin, Germany on November 1, 1880. He was a meteorologist (a person who studies the atmosphere and its weather (Meteorology, n.d.)) and geologist (a person who studies about the Earth’s history through rocks, layers of soil, etc. (Geology, n.d.)). In the early twentieth century, Wegener championed the continental drift theory. In 1904, he attended University of Berlin, where is he studied natural sciences also, received his doctorate in…

Asia and it is called Tibetan Plateau. And then I’ll be comparing the different land forms. The Grand Canyon is in Northern Arizona with an elevation of 8,000 feet. The process of the land form forming was the pacific plate slid underneath the North America plate. It took 4 million years for the canyon to be carved by the Colorado River and side streams and all of the rivulets helped. The Grand Canyon was formed by erosion and…

liquid. The biggest Tectonic plate is Pacific Ocean plate. Lithosphere essentially floats on the asthenosphere broken the tectonic plates. There are two types of boards: the ocean (eg. Slab Pacific Ocean) and continental plates. These plates are the segments which are moving relatively one in relation to each other and at the same time can be formed from the following boundaries of tectonic plates: a convergent, divergent and transform. Tectonic…

Mercury:The surface geology of the planet Mercury can be very easily described as - Rocky. Because of this it bears as strong resemblance to the earths moon. This is due the the heavily cratered surface which has been caused by asteroids which has caused these giant craters in the planets surface, leaving pulverized dust and boulders behind. The reason all of the asteroids were able to hit the surface of this planet is because its magnetic field is not strong enough to deflect or slow them down…

These plates are rigid segments that move in relation to one another at one of three types of plate boundaries: convergent boundaries, at which two plates come together, divergent boundaries, at which two plates are pulled apart, and transform boundaries, in which two plates slide past one another laterally. Earthquakes, volcanic activity, mountain-building, and oceanic trench formation can occur along these plate boundaries. The tectonic plates ride on top of the asthenosphere…