Plate Tectonics, Earthquakes, and Volcanoes

1. Plate Tectonics, Earthquakes, and Volcanoes • Map Projects • Plate Tectonics • Earthquakes • Volcanoes • Slides For Next Class: Read Chapter 2 (pp. 56-63)

2. Connections between inner Earth and surface landscape features • Part of the framework for understanding human settlement patterns Geological Environment

3. Plate Tectonics http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-HwPR_4mP4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryrXAGY1dmE

4. Slow-moving geologic plates • Heat exchange: convection cells Plate Tectonics Figure 2.2

5. Global Tectonic Plates Figure 2.3

6. Coastal California faces a threat of a major earthquake San Andreas Fault Zone Figure 2.4

7. Figure 2.7 • Compare Figure 2.7 to Figure 2.3. • What associations are evident between these two maps? Geologic Hazards Figure 2.3

8. Tectonic Disasters Figure 2.6 Figure 2.8 1991 Mt Pinatubo Eruption January 2010 Haiti Earthquake

9. Typical Volcanic Hazards

10. Villarica Volcano, Chile

12. Osorno Volcano, Chile

13. Tunguhuara Volcano, Ecuador

20. Cotopaxi Volcano, Ecuador