How would you describe the relationship between the locations of earthquakes, mountain ranges and volcanoes? Why do you think might occur?
1 Answer
Feb 22, 2016
Virtually all of these features are where plate boundaries are either being torn apart or colliding together.
Explanation:
Earthquakes tend to be concentrated in areas where plates are converging and/or being subducted into the mantle. Volcanos tend to pop up where plate subduction is going on or where plates are being pulled apart (divergent boundaries). Mountain ranges tend to form where plates converge, but don't subduct, but instead get pushed up into long mountain ranges. The most recent example is the Himalayan range in Northern India/China that recently (10 million years ago) formed when India collided with Asia.
