Plate tectonic Field trip!!!!!!! 

1. Plate tectonic Field trip!!!!!!! By: Morgan Lee, Brianna Hernandez, Haley Akins, Eric Sellers

2. Plate tectonics • Plate tectonicsis a scientific theory that describes the large-scale motions of Earth's lithosphere. • The major tectonic plates are: the African plate, Antarctic plate, Eurasian plate, Indo-Australian plate, North American plate, South American plate, and Pacific plate.

3. We will… • Day1: we will fly to California and visit San Andreas fault. We will spend the night in California. • Day 2: We will then fly to Maine and take a boat to New Zealand and study the alpine fault. • Day 3: We will now fly to Iceland and look at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. • Day 4: Then we will take a plane to Kenya and take a peek at some volcanoes and lakes of magma. • Day 5: We will then fly to Chile and look at the Andes mountains and see how they were formed. • Day 6: Then we will fly to Aleutian Islands we will look at the volcanic islands along the boundary between the north American and pacific plates. • Day 7:We will then fly to East Africa we will study the linear lakes within the rift valley of a developing divergent plate boundary in Eastern Africa • Day 8: Now we will fly to Red Sea, we will study in the narrow sea formed where the African and Arabian Plates are diverging. Look how the shorelines have a jigsaw puzzle fit. • Day 9: Then we will fly to the volcanic islands on eastern margin of the Caribbean Plate in contact with the south American plate. • Day 10: We will then fly to India and Asia to look at the Continents collide as India plows into Asia.

4. San Andres Fault, California • The San Andreas Fault is a continental transform fault that runs a length of roughly 810 miles through California in the United States. The fault's motion is right-lateral strike-slip. It forms the tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate. We will spend the night here.

5. Alpine fault, New Zealand • Today we will look at the Alpine Fault. The Alpine Fault is a geological fault, also known as a horizontal strike-slip fault, that almost as long as the entire length of New Zealand's South Island. It forms a transform boundary between the Pacific Plate and the Indo-Australian Plate. Earthquakes along the fault, and associated earth movements, have created the Southern Alps. The uplift to the southeast of the fault is because an element of convergence between the plates.

6. Mid- Atlantic ridge • The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is a mid-ocean ridge, a divergent tectonic plate boundary found along the floor of the Atlantic Ocean, and a part of the longest mountain range in the world. It separates the Eurasian Plate and North American Plate in the North Atlantic, and the African Plate from the South American Plate in the South Atlantic.

7. Kenya’s volcanoes • Now we will take a peek at the volcanoes in Kenya. Don’t get too close or you’ll get burned. Volcanic activity goes on for 200 kilometers both east and west of the main Rift Valley and is centered on the Kenya dome. There is a diversity of volcanic rocks from acid to basic. • Volcanic activity in the northern half of the Kenya Rift Valley began 30 million years ago, and in the southern half it began 15 million years ago.

8. Andes Mountains, Chile • Today we will visit the Andes Mountains ,the Andes mountains are the largest mountains in the world. The Andes range is the world's highest mountain range outside of the continent of Asia.

9. Aleutian Islands • There at the Aleutian islands we will see some of their volcanoes. One of there volcanoes is the Gareloi volcano • Gareloi is the northern most volcano of the Aleutian Islands .It is composed of two craters, the older of which is covered by lava flows running to the northwest and southern coast.

10. East Africa • We will go to east Africa to see the linear lakes.