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Are major crustal features like earthquakes volcanoes mountains and trenches found randomly on earths surface or is there a pattern?
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∙ 10y ago
There is a pattern. Mountains, volcanoes, and earthquakes are found predominantly near plate boundaries. Trenches are found expluxively at subduction zones.
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∙ 10y ago
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∙ 8y agoThere is a definite pattern and it is explained by the theory of Plate Tectonics.
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Volcanoes are formed by tetonic plates pushing together. Therefore they often form in lines. Such as the Himalyers and the alpes.
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Volcanoes tend to form mainly along the edges of tectonic plates, or where the magma is particularly thin or weak.
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A typical volcano lies on the destructive plate margins. Super volcanoes are not; they're kind of placed randomly in the middle of plates.
Where do volcanoes occur most frequentley?
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Are earths active volcanoes scattered randomly?
Volcanoes are formed by tetonic plates pushing together. Therefore they often form in lines. Such as the Himalyers and the alpes.
Why do volcanoes erupt on tectonic plates?
Volcanoes are not randomly distributed over the Earth's surface. Most are concentrated on the edges of continents, along island chains, or beneath the sea forming long mountain ranges. More than half of the world's active volcanoes above sea level encircle the Pacific Ocean to form the circum-Pacific "Ring of Fire." In the past 25 years, scientists have developed a theory -- called plate tectonics -- that explains the locations of volcanoes and their relationship to other large-scale geologic features...
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