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that's good then I can go get something to eat possibly.
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A volcano is an opening, or rupture, in a planet's surface or crust, which allows hot, molten rock, ash, and gases to escape from below the surface. Volcanic activity involving the extrusion of rock tends to form mountains or features like mountains over a period of time.
Volcanoes are generally found where tectonic plates are pulled apart or come together. A mid-oceanic ridge, for example the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, has examples of volcanoes caused by "divergent tectonic plates" pulling apart; the Pacific Ring of Fire has examples of volcanoes caused by "convergent tectonic plates" coming together. By contrast, volcanoes are usually not created where two tectonic plates slide past one another. Volcanoes can also form where there is stretching and thinning of the Earth's crust (called "non-hotspot intraplate volcanism"), such as in the African Rift Valley, the Wells Gray-Clearwater Volcanic Field and the Rio Grande Rift in North America and the European Rhine Graben with its Eifel volcanoes.
Volcanoes can be caused by "mantle plumes". These so-called "hotspots" , for example at Hawaii, can occur far from plate boundaries. Hotspot volcanoes are also found elsewhere in the solar system, especially on rocky planets and moons.
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In geology, a crust is the outermost solid shell of a planet or moon. Crust is chemically and mechanically different from underlying material. Crusts of Earth, our Moon, Mercury, Venus, and Mars have been generated largely by igneous processes, and these crusts are richer in incompatible elements than the underlying mantles. Crusts are also present on moons of outer planets and have formed by similar or analogous processes: for instance, Io, a moon of Jupiter, also has a crust formed by igneous processes.
Earth has the best characterized and perhaps the most complex crust of all the planets and moons in our solar system. An overview of our crust is provided in the entry on Structure of the Earth, and the two contrasting types of crust are discussed in entries on continental crust and oceanic crust. Despite the details known about Earth's crust, its early history is obscure. The rapidly growing base of knowledge about other bodies in the solar system provides insights into the beginnings of Earth history as well as into other possible paths of planetary evolution. Studies of the Moon have been particularly valuable for understanding the early Earth.
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Geology (from Greek: γη, gĂȘ, "earth"; and λόγος, logos, "speech" lit. to talk about the earth) is the science and study of the solid matter that constitutes the Earth. Encompassing such things as rocks, soil, and gemstones, geology studies the composition, structure, physical properties, history, and the processes that shape Earth's components. It is one of the Earth sciences. Geologists have established the age of the Earth at about 4.6 billion (4.6x109) years, and have determined that the Earth's lithosphere, which includes the crust, is fragmented into tectonic plates that move over a rheic upper mantle (asthenosphere) via processes that are collectively referred to as plate tectonics. Geologists help locate and manage the Earth's natural resources, such as petroleum and coal, as well as metals such as iron, copper, and uranium. Additional economic interests include gemstones and many minerals such as asbestos, perlite, mica, phosphates, zeolites, clay, pumice, quartz, and silica, as well as elements such as sulfur, chlorine, and helium. Geology is also of great importance in the applied fields of civil engineering, soil mechanics, hydrology, environmental engineering and geohazard
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greek is the death to the streak.
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I'm going to have 20k spam before the end of the year
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