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Do these volcanoes really have steep/craggy dramatic slopes like the image suggests? I remember being disappointed to find that the Mariana Trench didn’t have
by jl6 4y ago
Do these volcanoes really have steep/craggy dramatic slopes like the image suggests?
I remember being disappointed to find that the Mariana Trench didn’t have looming near-vertical canyon walls, but rather had a relatively tame slope.
- DrBazza 4y ago> Do these volcanoes really have steep/craggy dramatic slopes like the image suggests? Probably not many. They will have formed slowly at plate boundaries such as the mid-Atlantic ridge, then moved apart over millions of years, then very, very, slow erosion. > I remember being disappointed to find that the Mariana Trench didn’t have looming near-vertical canyon walls, but rather had a relatively tame slope. One of my favourite books mentioned that you could easily drive a car to the bottom of the Marianas trench if it were dry (https://seabedhabitats.org/2015/08/26/book-review-mapping-the-deep-by-robert-kunzig/ https://seabedhabitats.org/2015/08/26/book-review-mapping-th...).
- marcellus23 4y agoWow, I did some googling and found this cross-section of the Mariana Trench. Was not expecting this at all (bottom of the page, figure 4): https://mason.gmu.edu/~bklinger/deeptrench.html https://mason.gmu.edu/~bklinger/deeptrench.html