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Plate Tectonics, Folding and Faulting - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Formed Munster
- - - - 3-10 Km Thick
- - - - Fits Together like a Jigsaw
    - - Bones Found In Africa
        
        Also Found in South America
    - - Similar to Fossil Distribution
        
        But with Rocks
  - - - Pangaea
        
        Huge Super Continent
        
        Began to Break Apart
  - - - Where Plates Split Apart
- - - - Two Plates Pull Apart
        
        Convection Currents
        
        In the Mantle
        
        Fissure Develops
        
        Magma Rises
        
        Cools & Hardens
        
        Forms New Lands
        
        Process Repeats
        
        Forms Volcanic Mountains
        
        Forms Mid-Ocean Ridges
        
        Mantle Stretches Thin
        
        Rifting Occurs
    - - Mid-Atlantic Ridge
      - Iceland
      - Volcanic Mountains
  - - - Oceanic-Oceanic
        
        Plates Collide
        
        Subduction
        
        Heavier Plate is Sucked Down
        
        Forms a Deep Narrow Trench
        
        Subducted Plate Melts
        
        Forms Silica & Gasses
        
        In the Asthenosphere
        
        Pressure Builds
        
        Magma Rises Up
        
        Pushes Up through Crust
        
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        Earthquakes may occur
        
        E.g Pacific/Eurasian Plate
      - Oceanic-Continental
        
        Plates Collide
        
        Subduction
        
        Same as Before
        
        Fold Mountains are Formed
        
        Forms Explosive Volcanos
        
        E.g Nazca/South American Plate
        
        Forms Andes
      - Continental-Continental
        
        Same as Before
        
        Fold Mountains are Formed
        
        E.g Indian/Eurasian Plate
        
        Himalayas
  - - - E.g San Andreas Fault, California
      - Rock is not Created or Destroyed
      - Lies on a Fault Line
      - Most are found under the Ocean
      - Earthquakes Occur frequently here
- - - - Old Red Sandstone
      - Ireland was down by the Equator
        
        380 MYA
    - - Fish Remains
      - 350 MYA
      - It was underwater
    - - Strata fold into Anticlines and Synclines
      - Form Mountains
        
        Macgillycuddy Reeks
    - - Limestone Erodes
        
        Denudation
        
        Exposed The ORS
        
        Remains in the Synclines
        
        Sheltered
    - - Very Straight Lines
- - - - Plates pulled Apart
    - - Ox Mountains
    - - Zone of Hotspots under East Africa
        
        Puts the African Plate under Tension
        
        Stretches from the Red Sea to Mozambique
        
        4800 Km Long
      - Happened 20 MYA
  - - - Land Pushed Upwards