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☆☆☆☆☆The Ring of Fire (Pacific Ring of Fire) is an area of Pacific Plate subduction, rimming (of course) the Pacific Ocean. The plate subduction creates a line of volcanism geographically around its perimeter that appears to form a circle or ring.
The Ring of Fire is the subducting plate boundary of the shrinking Pacific Ocean. The subducting oceanic crust is being drawn under less dense oceanic and continental crust and is melting into the upper mantle which can lead to volcanism and earthquakes.
the answer is liquefaction
A seismograph was created to measure out the magnitude of earthquakes.
The three stations' rings that showed the distance from the epicenter and in that area would be where the epicenter is.
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it goes through lava and while in the process it changes so just put it goes through a lava rockformation
One way magma forms is rising rocks melt in the mantle a pressure decreases
Because Wegener could identify the cause of continental drift
Either the loss of confining pressure causing the melting point of the material to drop below the in-situ temperature or due to the presence of volatiles which enter the mantle where subduction occurs and also lower the melting point of the material.
Continental Drift.
magnitude of past earthquakes in the area
P waves, also called primary waves, are the first waves to be registered on a seismograph. The S waves, or secondary waves, are the second and slower wave to register on the seismograph. When locating an earthquakes epicenter seismologists take the first reading of the P wave, and then take the reading from the S wave. At the station of where the earthquake was recorded, seismologists draw a large circle from where the earthquakes epicenter could be. TO exactly located the earthquakes epicenter there needs to be at least 3 dfferent staions where the earthquake hit to determine its epicenter using the S and P time interval.
It would stop earth's rotation.
Showed that the tidal forces needed to move continents would stop earths rotation.
No. Only a fairly small percentage of Earth's land is covered by glaciers. However, about 75% of the surface is covered by water.
No, the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 did not cause a tsunami.
His evidence was incorrect.
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