Litho: Examples
October 17, 2007
After the jump: a list of examples to use for litho
Ocean trenches
Oceanic-oceanic plate collisions
Mariana Trench – Pacific (subducted) and Philippine plates – extends for 11km off the coast of Philippines and is the deepest trench on earth
Oceanic-continental plate collisions
Peru-Chile (Atacama) Trench – Nazca (subducted) and South American plates
Kuril Trench – Pacific (subducted) and Okhotsk plates
Rift valleys
East African Rift Valley – extends some 5500km from Mozambique to Lebanon
Valley floor lakes
Freshwater lake – Lake Malawi (EARV)
Soda lake – Lake Natron (EARV)
Mid-ocean ridges
Mid-Atlantic ridge – runs midway between the Americas and Europe/Africa
Volcanic islands
Azores, Ascension Island, Canaries – all along the MAR
Volcanic island arcs
Japanese Islands
Aleutian Islands, North Pacific
Continental volcanic arcs
Andes, South America
Fold mountains
Himalayas – Indian and Eurasian plates
Alps – African and Eurasian plates
Transform plate boundaries
San Andreas Fault – extends some 1300km on the western coast of California
Hotspots
Hawaiian Islands
Volcanoes
Stratovolcanoes – Kilimanjaro and Lengai, Tanzania;
Shield volcanoes – Loa, Hawaii
Basalt plateaus – Deccan Plateau, West India
Entry Filed under: Geography, Notes, Physical (G). Tags: geomorphology, lithosphere, lithospheric.
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