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Can climate be caused by Earth's position volcanic activity and continental movement?
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Volcanic activity can certainly influence climate change. Big volcanoes release a considerable amount of particulate and H2S gas, which has a cooling effect. They also emit CO2, which over time has a cumulative warming effect in that it is a heat trapping gas. Currently there are between 1000 and 3000 active volcanoes on the earth. Humans emit more than 100 times their total combined output.
Continental movement is very slow. The Atlantic Ocean, for example, continues to open at a little under one inch per year. As sea floor is subducted beneath the western plate margins of the Americas, it pushes up the Andes, Sierra/Nevadas, and other coastal ranges. As these increase in size they cast a rain shadow over the western interior, decreasing rain fall. Many ancient lakes between the rockies and coastal ranges have completely dried up into alkaline playa over the past few million years. So crustal motion DOES play a role in climate, though only over geologic periods of time.
The first one mentioned is earth's position. Variations in orbital cycles have been the driving force behind the past series of glacial epochs. These variations are known as Milankovitch Cycles, and occur on hundred thousand year time scales.
Current climate change is not driven by any of the factors mentioned in this question, but instead primarily by human activity in the form of fossil fuel consumption. Humans currently release over 30 billion tons of heat trapping CO2 per year.
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When oceanic plunges beneath continental crust volcanic activity and earthquakes may result in which region does this occur?
The continental margins of the Pacific Ocean
Does Ceres have volcanic activity?
No, Ceres does not have volcanic activity.
What is the most frequant cause of rocks breaking apart?
Probably, earthquakes or volcanic activity. Or the movement of plate tectonics.
How earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur and how contients move?
Most movement occurs along narrow zones between plates where the ... Divergent boundaries occur along spreading centers where plates are moving apart and new ... Some of these rifting events were accompanied by volcanic activity; the ... When the continental crust stretches beyond its limits, tension.
When an oceanic plate is pushed under a continental plate resulting in volcanic activity what type of boundary is formed?
Convergent Boundary (Subduction Zone)
Do earthquakes make mountains?
No.Mountains are the result of continental drift an volcanic activity. Earthquakes are also the result of continental drift an volcanic activity. Thus the two go together but the earthquakes do not cause the mountains.
What is the continental slope of the pacific ocean?
Volcanic activity, earthquakes, plate interactions
What is the difference between a passive continental margin an an active continental margin?
Passive continental margins are not areas of convergence. There is little volcanic and earthquake activity on passive margins. Active margins are areas of convergence where one plate is descending beneath another. They are associated with volcanic and earthquake activity.
What is the volcanic and the drift continental theory?
the Continental Drift Theory is the slow movement of the Earths continents. A.K.A the continents drift
How do you know that volcanic activity?
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When oceanic plunges beneath continental crust volcanic activity and earthquakes may result in which region does this occur?
The continental margins of the Pacific Ocean
Where is the most active volcanic activity in the United states?
alaska, hawaii, and the northwestern continental states
Any activity that icludes the movement of magma on to the earth's surface?
This is known as a volcanic eruption.
When an oceanic plate is pushed under a continental plate resulting in volcanic activity this type of boundary forms?
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When an oceanic plate is pushed under a continental plate resulting in volcanic activity this type of boundary forms.?
booff
Does Ceres have volcanic activity?
No, Ceres does not have volcanic activity.
What are some plate movement effects?
The movement of plate tectonics can result in earthquakes, tsunamis, mountain building, volcanic activity, and oceanic trenches.
