EESA06H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: North Atlantic Igneous Province, Dead Sea Transform, North Anatolian Fault
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Essa06h3: lecture 5: naf: north anatolian fault, accommodates the movement of the turkish plate to the west, cascading earthquakes: cascade along the fault. Terms to remember: uniformitarianism (the present is the key to the past, passive vs active plate margins, lithospheric stretching. Iceland and the icelandic plume: north atlantic igneous province, rehkjanes ridge, dikes, and fissure eruptions, shield volcanoes, hyaloclastite, columnar basalt, eyjafjallajokull, tephra, lakagigar eruption 1783 and the french revolution, moberg mountains, geothermal energy. Jokulhlaups: atlantic ocean: known as the passive margin cause no volcanic activity, minimum earthquakes, eastern, right hand side of america (new found land, halifax, new. Passive margins are very important for natural resources: east pacific rise: the fastest spreading mid ocean ridge, mid atlantic: not as fast, death of ocean floor: when continents move closer to each other instead of moving apart. Iceland is sitting on a huge mantle plume so it is the only place you can stand on a mid-oceanic ridge.
