Provide Examples of How Mountain-Building Depends on Oceanic-Plate Features
Topographic and bathymetric images derived from Eartha Global Explorer, Copyright 1998 by DeLorme Inc., Yarmouth, Maine. www.delorme.com
New Zealand example from work by Louie, Henrys, and Bannister of UNR and the Crown Institute for Geological and Nuclear Sciences, New Zealand. www.seismo.unr.edu/ftp/pub/louie/weber/
Topics
Oceanic Trenches Oceanic Plateaus Next Topics:
Continental Collision New Zealand and the Hikurangi
Trough
Oceanic Trenches Andes
Oceanic Trenches Chile
Oceanic Trenches Chile
Oceanic Trenches Chile
Oceanic Trenches Chile
Oceanic Trenches Cascadia
Oceanic Trenches Cascadia
Oceanic Trenches Cascadia
Oceanic Trenches Cascadia
Oceanic Trenches Cascadia
Oceanic Trenches Cascadia
Oceanic Trenches Cocos Plate
Oceanic Trenches Central American close-up
Oceanic Trenches Costa Rica
Oceanic Trenches
Costa Rica
Oceanic Trenches Nicaragua Subduction Wedge
Oceanic Trenches Costa Rica Subduction Wedge
Oceanic Trenches Japan - Philippine Sea
Oceanic Trenches Japan - Philippine Sea
Oceanic Trenches Japan - Philippine Sea
Oceanic Trenches
Underplating
Oceanic Trenches Japan - Philippine Sea
Oceanic Trenches Japan - Philippine Sea
New Zealand and the Hikurangi Trough Australia–Pacific Plate Boundary