Académique Documents
Professionnel Documents
Culture Documents
The separation of the major lithospheric plates, continental drift and expansion
of the oceanic crust settled into action dynamic forces at great depths. The
diastrofismo is a general term that refers to the crustal movements caused by
ground forces endogenous producing basins of the oceans, continents,
plateaus and mountains. The geotectonic cycle called these large structures
associated with major crustal movements and rock types in different steps of
development.
The epirognesis affecting large parts of the continents and oceans, especially
for vertical movements, and produces plateaus and basins. The slow and
gradual crustal displacement act in particular on the cratons, stable regions of
the cortex. Fractures and displacement of rocks, which can be from a few
centimeters to many kilometers, are called faults. Geysers and hot springs are
like volcanoes, tectonic unstable areas.
Formation of mountains
Cratons
Cratons are located in central areas of the continents. They consist of rocks that
were consolidated in the archaic, especially, gneiss, schist and granite anatexia.
They are very stable regions. The movements that occur are epirognicos and
the heat flux is very small. The heat given off by the rocks is very low because it
has already produced the disintegration of radioactive elements containing
2,000 or 3,000 million years ago. Metamorphic rocks and granites can be
Failures
Fracture lines along which a section of the earth's crust has moved over
another. Their appearance is associated with the boundaries between plates
that slide over each other
and with places where the
continents separated.
Volcanoes
A volcano is a fissure in the earth's crust on which a volcanic cone material
accumulates. The volcanoes are produced by the outpouring of lava from deep
within the Earth. Most volcanoes are composite structures formed in part by
lava flows and fragmented material.
The earthquakes
The earthquakes are sharp and brief shaking of the earth's crust. These
phenomena occur especially at the edges of lithospheric plates, reaching far
more violence in subduction zones where frictions are very intense since it is
the
forced
introduction of a
lithospheric
plate
under another. Other
earthquakes occur
within
the
lithospheric plates as
in the case of a
continent
under
strong pressure due
to the formation of
an orogen on the
edge of the plate
forming part. They
can also be caused
by volcanic eruptions
or faulting.
Fallas
Volcanes
Muchos volcanes nacen bajo el agua , en el fondo del mar . Etna y Vesubio
empezaron como volcanes submarinos , como el amplio cono de las islas de
Hawai y muchas otras islas volcnicas en el Ocano Pacfico
os terremotos