(March 11, 2011 at 4:34 am)Chuck Wrote:(March 11, 2011 at 4:08 am)Jax Wrote: Taking about earthquakes, another earthquake hit Japan, followed up by a tsunami.
Poor Japan, may all the ones who lost their lives rest in peace.
Both the Japanese islands and new Zealand owe their existence to subduction trenches off their shores, both are highly volcanic and both are subject to numerous quakes.
It's not the trenches they owe their existence to. The trenches are but one feature of a subduction zone. They owe their existence to convergent boundary plate tectonics, which is the sum total of all the tectonic features we see in these island chains, which include deep trenches, megathrust faulting, island arc volcanics, back arc basins, forearc basins, strike-slip faulting, dictinct mineralization and metamorphic zones, and even some divergent tectonics along the margins. There is a lot of interesting (and often deadly) geology going on in these islands arcs.
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-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
