EESA06H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Fracture Zone, Pacific Plate, Salar People
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Saligrams: fossilized shells, an aniconic symbol and reminder of god vishnu (part of tethys sediments that were in the himalayas) Japan: subduction central where 3 plates meet. Earthquakes were thought to be based on weather in 19th ce. Currently active volcanoes as of feb 5, 2016 in japan. Nobi earthquake of 1891 beginning of science of seismology. Relative motion one moving relative to the other one. St. elias resulting from uplift of that part of the na plate above the subduction zone. Orographic - resulting from the effects of mountains in forcing moist air to rise: when moist air is lifted as it moves over a mountain range. As the air rises and cools, orographic clouds form and serve as the source of the precipitation, most of which falls upwind of the mountain ridge. Ghost forests dead trees killed when the area subsided.
