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To prepare for Wednesday's discussion of the
effects of plate tectonics on society, please:
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1) Read to the US Geological Survey's "Dynamic
Earth" webpage on
Plate Tectonics
and People. This is part of a
more comprehensive
USGS website on plate tectonics, which you may find informative (but latter
is not assigned reading).
2) Look up and read one article on a
natural disaster related to plate tectonics. (This can be a newspaper
article archived on the web). Before 4:00 pm on Tuesday Jan 27, email the
instructor (dwitter@kent.edu) the title
and source of your article (and web link, if it is an electronic source), and a
one-paragraph summary of the article.
As you are reading the article think about the following:
(a) What is the configuration of tectonic plates in the region of the
disaster? What type of motion and what geologic structures do you expect
to see in this region?
(b) What was the sequence of events that led to the disaster? What was the
sequence of events during the disaster?
(c) How did this disaster affect society? Were any measures taken in
advance of the disaster to reduce the impact on society? Did they work?
Why or why not? |