Sunday, February 28, 2010

The Ring of Fire

All of these websites were about the transformation of volcanoes and where volcanoes are located.

http://geology.com/plate-tectonics.shtml

This website was called Plate Tectonics Map

http://map.ngdc.noaa.gov/wmsconnector/com.esri.wms.Esrimap/hazards?BBOX=-180,-90,180,90&WIDTH=1200&HEIGHT=600&SRS=EPSG:4326&Layers=continents,elev_bath,plates,volcanoes&version=1.1.1&service=WMS&FORMAT=JPEG&TRANSPARENT=TRUE&request=getmap


http://www.globalchange.umich.edu/globalchange1/current/lectures/evolving_earth/evolving_earth.html

The tital of this website was Evolving Earth: Plate Tectonics

There is a relationship between the plate boundaries of earth and volcanoes. All boundries have to do with volcanoes: continent- continent convergent boundary, ocean- continent- convergent boundary, continent- continent divergent, transform fault boundaries, ocean -ocean convergent boundary, ocean continent- convergent boundary, ocean- ocean divergent boundary.

Sunday, February 14, 2010

Plate Tectonics

http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072402466/student_view0/chapter19/animations_and_movies.html
The title of this website is Physical Geology
http://www.geo.msu.edu/geogmich/rift_zone.html
The title of this website is the Mid- Continent Rift Zone
http://www.scotese.com/earth.htm
This title of this website is called Paleomap Project
These websites were about plate tectonics and how they are dividing and connecting and what happens in this process.
Pagena was 135 million years ago, when all of the continents were last joined as one. The Keweenawan Rift was about 1.1 billion years ago. The type of lavas rock that now fills the Keweenawan Rift is 15 km of lavas. The period of time that michigan was south of the equator was called Cambrian, this period was 514 million years ago. In the future world the major mountain range that is north of Africa is the Mediterranean mountains. 250 million years from now North America will be connected to Africa and Eurasia.

Saturday, February 6, 2010

Earthquake

http://www.iris.edu/seismon/
Febuary 6, 2010
The name of this article was Seismonci Moniter. It was about how frequently and where earthquakes occur.
There have been 10 earthquakes that have happened all around the world today. The most recent earthquake that happened in the United States was near the Coast of Northern Calif on Febuary 4th. The state that seems to have the most earthquakes is California. The most earthquakes in South America seem to occur in Tanzanla. As you move from west to east across south america the earthquakes stop, there are none there.