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Tectonics

All posts tagged Tectonics

Bering Sea Basalt Province

Posted by agimarc on 2017-11-27
Posted in: America N, Science. Tagged: Alaska, Basalt, bering, block, extrusion, province, recent, remote, rotation, Tectonics. 23 Comments
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Bering Sea volcanic province. Screen capture from Winer, et al.

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Mount Ararat, the Biblical Mountain

Posted by agimarc on 2017-10-27
Posted in: Asia, Eruptions-historic, Europe. Tagged: Ararat, Armenia, earthquakes, flank collapse, neighboring volcanoes, Tectonics, Turkey. 13 Comments
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Mount Ararat. Greater Ararat is on the right. Lesser Ararat is on the left. https://www.pinterest.com/arminepan/mount-ararat/

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What are the tectonics behind Rinjani?

Posted by agimarc on 2015-11-13
Posted in: Asia, Eruptions-present, Science, Volcano Basics, Volcanoes. Tagged: Indo-Australian Plate, Lesser Sunda Islands, Lombok, Rinjani, Subduction, Sumbawa, Sunda Arc, Tectonics, Timor Trench. 4 Comments
Google maps of Lombok island with Rinjani and Tambora to the east

Google maps of Lombok island with Rinjani and Tambora to the east

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Activity increases at Semisopochnoi

Posted by agimarc on 2015-03-29
Posted in: America N, Volcanoes. Tagged: Aleutian Islands, Caldera, Semisopochnoi, Tectonics. 40 Comments
Semisopochnoi from Space - http://www.avo.alaska.edu/images/image.php?id=3134

Semisopochnoi from Space – http://www.avo.alaska.edu/images/image.php?id=3134

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