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Module 2
Goggle Earth Assignment
Ashley Grovanz
PHY-105
1.
Shifting plate that are found in this area are the reasoning for the volcanic and seismic
activity within the area. The Nazca, Caribbean, and the Cocos plates they all conjoin in
the area. Under the North American Plate lies the Cocos plate in which this will cause the
earthquakes to occur and that then forms the volcanoes within the convergent boundary.
2.
I believe that a lot of the earthquake that have occurred on the gulf of California from the
fault of San Andres. I believe that this fault would ne a transform plate boundary.
3.
Earthquakes that occurs around Guatermala to Cuba are caused due to North American
and the Caribbean plates meet. This fault it a slip or a strike and or it will transform the
plate boundary.
4.
When you start to move from Costa Rica to the Panama the earthquake activity has
disappeared and then moves to where the occurrence will the take place in the ocean
lithosphere within the plate boundaries off the shore.
5.
Shield volcanoes are the common in the area they are accumulation of the basaltic lava
fluid.
6.
I believe that it looks like it could be a mix of the plate boundaries that then connect to
the Panama and the Galapagos island. The seem to base the transform boundaries are
based the depth of the earthquakes with the seafloor that is spreading and the step like
patter that is in between the plates that could possibly
divergent the boundaries that are
connecting the Nazca and Cocos plates.
7.
(A) Stratovolcanoes
(B) I feel that the Stratovolcanoes are the ones that make sense. The plate boundaries on
what ever side on the land border are the convergent
and are pushing inwards towards
the land from both of the sides in which then then causes magma that is being pushed to
the surface causing it to form a central ARC location that is a land mass.
(C) Hazards that can potentially cause some hazards such as a explosive eruptions that
then can cause pyroclastic flow that is made up of a hot gas that tends to be mixed with
large lava fragments and ash.
(D) Based on what I see the two volcano that are the closest would be Irazu and Barva.
When you really think about it I think that the Barva would have the biggest threat with it
being a complex volcano. When you are comparing it to the Stratovolcano I believe with
having a complex volcano it potentially shows a larger threat because of the rapid fast
moving lahars. Barva withholds the properties that are in connection with other volcanos
that are able to produce lahars along with the explosive eruption and the lava flow. But
they both have the tendency to share the stratovolcano tratis.
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