Essays on Plate Tectonics

The Kohat folds and thrusts belt is situated in North-Western Pakistan made due to the collision between the India-Eurasia plates. Kohat consists of tight anticlines and broad synclines structures. Previous litrature shows that deformed pattern of this area is due to repeated episodes of deformations….

Death Valley, one of the hottest places in the world, is the centerpiece of the Death Valley National Park in Eastern California. Death Valley was formed as a part of a graben. To the east of the San Andreas Fault System (SAFS) lies a tectonically…

When Europeans viewed the first world maps including the Americas 5 centuries ago, they noticed the African and South American coastlines would fit together like a puzzle if they were not separated by the Atlantic ocean. Scientists of the era were baffled and came to…

In the world, there are currently multiple areas in which the interaction of tectonic plates can be represented. I am going to discuss how, as well as provide scientific reasoning to justify the features provided on the surface of the earth due to the Himalayan…

Extensive carbonate deposition along the paleo-Pacific passive margin of East Antarctica began as early as 525 Ma, during what is termed the Platform stage (Goodge, 1997; Goodge et al., 2004b). A period of moderate basin inversion followed carbonate sedimentation and occurred along the rifted margin,…

The Evolution of Plate Tectonics in Europe Plate tectonics is the theory that Earth’s strong outer layer, the lithosphere, is divided into several plates that glide over the mantle. Basically, scientists believe that convection, due to the heating of the magma in the mantle, is…

Plate Tectonics Predicting the Past Plate tectonics is a relatively new concept, being introduced by Alfred Wegener in his 1915 publication of Origins of the Continents and Oceans, through his theory of continental drifts and not publicly accepted by the scientific world until the 1960s…

Natural disaster detection and monitoring are an important area in remote sensing that is actively being explored by researchers of which volcano detection is the crucial one. A large number of volcanoes in the world are active but detection of all the volcanoes using the…

The Kalahari Basin in the continent of Africa lies in the south and covers a vast lowland area in six different countries, it is a semi-arid, sandy savanna. Soil over the Kalahari basin is produced by the breakdown of rock due to physical or chemical…

A schematic geochemical evaluation should be considered to examine the favorability or probability of a mineral deposit in order to construct a predictive model (Caranza et al., 2010; Wang et al., 2013). Taking into account that the primary geochemical haloes are formed and developed contemporaneous…