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    Volcanoes have been a part of Earth’s geologic timescale for as long back as we can look. The people of ancient Greece believed the fumes were the fiery breath of a monster, held captive under a mountain by the almighty God, Zeus. The Romans were convinced the God of Blacksmith, Vulcan, was working diligently in his personal forge crafting the weapons of the Heavens. Some civilizations even feared volcanoes, with the idea that they were the passage way to the underworld, a hell here on Earth. If

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    Vertical Datum

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    when you want to tell someone how to get to your house, you give them a starting point that they know, like a crossroads or a building address. Geodesists and surveyors use datum to create starting or reference points for floodplain maps, property boundaries, construction surveys, levee design, or other work requiring accurate coordinates that are consistent with one another.

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    plates apart and then pull them down at convergent boundaries. This can be seen at the mid-ocean ridges. Eruptions are non-violent with the exceptions of the East African Rift Valley where the recent eruption in 2002 in the Republic of Congo had a devastating effect on the local population, and where the ocean ridges rise up out of the sea such as in Iceland. The theory of plate tectonics also explains the formation of destructive plate boundaries which account for creating 80% of the world’s active

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    part of the mantel. They wrap around the globe like a net and interact at boundaries, such as land and ocean. There are three types of place boundaries, convergent, divergent and transform. Convergent boundaries are regions that develop when two tectonic plates collide. The area surrounding the collision becomes mountainous as the plates buckle. This happens through a process called subduction. Divergent boundaries

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    According to the theory of plate tectonics there is constant motion in the lithosphere which causes the many plates lying upon it to move relatively to one another due to convection currents. There are 3 boundaries where volcanic and seismic events, but not limited to, occur. The constructive plate boundary is where 2 plates, such as the North American plate and the Eurasian plate move apart causing sea-floor spreading and volcanic activity – when the less dense basaltic lava from the asthenosphere rises

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    Plate Tectonic Analysis

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    mantle. The boundaries between the plates are known to serve as an important mineral resource. Three types of tectonic plate exist: convergent, divergent and transform boundaries. A convergent boundary represents two plates moving towards each other mostly forming a subduction. When two plates move away from each other, a divergent boundary is formed. In transform boundaries, the plates move laterally past each other (Mission, 2016). Within the mid-ocean ridges forming a divergent boundary, a zone of

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    types of plate boundaries. Divergent boundaries where two plates move away from each other. The ocean widens and new crust forms at the mid-oceanic ridge. Convergent boundaries has three types of converging, moving two plates towards each other. First we have an ocean floor plate that collides with a less dense continental plate. Next an ocean floor plate collides with another ocean floor plate. Finally a continental plate collides with another continental plate. Transform boundaries were two plates

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    Submarine volcanoes, mid-ocean ridges, and submarine canyons are all grouped into the marine geology systems. Underwater structures can actually be pretty useful to marine geologists, in 1930 studies found the seafloor to have all of the same physical features on land like mountains, volcanoes, canyons and more. The seafloor is estimated to be less than 2,000,000 year old, being a lot younger than landforms. The ‘age’ difference of the two makes marine geologists’ work a lot more fun to compare in

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    foreshocks reached as much as 6.0 and greater effects that ended up acting on the land in the following days and months even after the quake had subsided. The tsunami that accompanied the earthquake originated from a fault along the convergent plate boundary at the section where the Pacific plate joins with the west beneath Japan. The subduction zone was very active seismically at the time of the occurrence of the earthquake. Thus based on my understanding of earthquakes, the March 11 disaster was among

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    Therefore, it is evident that there exist certain forms of masculinity and femininity within certain spaces of the gym. Gender and space have had a relationship in history since the very beginning of established settlements. In modern days, examples of these spaces include Bedouin tents, Mongolian Gers, and Iranian houses. Within these residences, established spaces for each gender have played a significant role in social organization and familial life. However, this presence of segregation in space

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