1. Faults Around the World
PHY 131
Braun-Ruddick
Seismograph Station
Canisius College
M. Castner

2. Study the following maps of the world
Look for divergent plate boundaries.
Look for convergent plate boundaries.
Look for transform faults.

3. Natural Disasters 6e, Patrick Abbott, page 52

4. How Does Earth Work? Pun & Smith, p. 311

5. Earthquakes, Bolt, 5e, p. 148

6. The Indian subcontinent
An example of a convergent plate boundary.

7. Natural Disasters, Abbott, 6e, p. 70

8. Turkey
The North Anatolian fault is a transform fault. In particular, it is a right lateral strike-slip fault.

9. Natural Disasters, Abbott, 6e, p. 72

10. Natural Disasters, Abbott, 6e, p. 72
• Modern day Turkey
Natural Disasters, Abbott, 6e, p. 72

11. Turkey and California
Two of the world’s great strike-slip faults.

12. Earthquakes, Bolt, 5e, p. 71

13. Alaska - the Aleutian Islands
One of the world’s great subduction zones.

14. Earthquakes, Bolt, 5e, p. 154

15. Ocean floor spreading
It is splitting the island of Iceland in two.

16. Natural Disasters 6e, Patrick Abbott, p. 56
What happens when an island gets caught on top of ground zero? \/
Natural Disasters 6e, Patrick Abbott, p. 56

17. Natural Disasters, Abbott, 6e, p. 64

18. Þingvellir. Looking north, along the edge of the North American plate.
Photo courtesy of Dr. Rick Batt, Buffalo State College

19. Þingvellir. Looking north, along the edge of the North American plate.
Photo courtesy of Dr. Rick Batt, Buffalo State College

20. Photo courtesy of Dr. Rick Batt, Buffalo State College
"Bridge between the continents" near the western tip of the Reykjanes Peninsula (looking at bridge, N.A. to left, European plate right)
Photo courtesy of Dr. Rick Batt, Buffalo State College

21. European plate is on the left, N.A. plate on the right.
View from the Bridge between the continents near the western tip of the Reykjanes Peninsula.
European plate is on the left, N.A. plate on the right.
Photo courtesy of Dr. Rick Batt, Buffalo State College

22. For more on faults around the world …
… see the notes on faults in the USA.

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