Week 2 : A Brief Look Into Tectonics

     The study of tectonics and the location of their plates are very important to understand because it helps geologists understand the effects they have on the countries around the globe. Our main focus in this blog is the natural hazards in Norway and their causes and effects from nature itself. Tectonics, which are large-scale geological activities that create landforms such as continents and ocean basins shape this beautiful world we live in. With that said, there is also a duality that comes from tectonic plates, that being natural hazards! Norway once originally belonged to the Baltic Plate, an ancient tectonic plate that later fused from the colliding of Siberia, creating the Ural Mountains and becoming the Eurasian Plate we have today. 


    The Eurasian Plate is both an oceanic plate, as well as a continental plate, being the third-largest plate on Earth! It contains nearly all of Europe, Russia, and some areas of Asia. The west side of the Eurasian Plate currently shares a divergent plate boundary with the North American plate. A divergent boundary takes place when two tectonic plates move away from each other and the production of the new lithosphere is created. With divergent boundaries come earthquakes that occur close to these boundaries. Fortunately for Norway, earthquakes are not as ordinary to occur but they still manage to affect the country every year.

A divergent boundary takes place when two tectonic plates move away from each other and the production of the new lithosphere is created. With divergent boundaries come earthquakes that occur close to these boundaries. Fortunately for Norway, earthquakes are not as ordinary to occur but they still manage to affect the country every year.

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  1. Ana GGFebruary 4, 2022 at 9:43 AM

    This was a great tectonic post. I'm very curios how this will relate to how many earthquakes the country has...(we shall see next week!)

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