Tectonic Theater Project

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 Porphyry ore deposits are some of the major resources for minerals such as copper. Porphyry copper deposits can be…

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…

One of the most devastating and well known earth quakes in American history was the Great San Francisco Earthquake that happened on April 18th, 1906. Early in the morning there was a 296 miles long rupture along the San Andreas Fault and extensive fires followed after. This earthquake remains as one of the most important studies of a single 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…

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…

jigsaw puzzle, especially the West African coastline with the 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…

Earthquakes and volcanoes are generally caused by one thing; plate tectonics. All three will be discussed in detail. This paper will describe how they affect each other. This is a very interesting topic because it is so hard to predict. Plate tectonics are interesting in the way they work. This is the constant moving and shifting of the earth’s crust which is divided into segments called plates. They are about the same size as a continent and vary in size as the continents do. Each plate…

Plate tectonics is the belief the lithosphere is separated into a few dozen plates that move around across the earth 's surface relative to each other, like big pieces of ice on a lake. If we were able to lay the earth flat to see where the plates were positioned, it would have the appearance of an orange peel; with the earth 's crust as the orange color shell and the white as the lithosphere. The break points would be fault lines, the plate’s outer perimeter that aligns and intersects them.…