What is the geographical relationship between fault lines and volcanoes?
The geographical phenomenon known as a fault line, is actually a line along which tectonic plates slowly move towards or away from each other. This movement can have a lot of geographical effects, which vary depending on whether the plates move towards each other or away from each other: When plates move towards each other, they can push each other upwards, creating mountain ranges such as the rocky mountains and the himalaya. One plate can also start sliding over the other plate, pushing the other plate down. The area in which this happens is called a subduction zone. A subduction zone is thus an area in which two plates collide. These plates are usually an oceanic plate (the top of which is the ocean floor) and a continental plate (the top of which is mostly land which lies above sea level). When this happens, the oceanic plate is pushed down by the continental plate, forming a very deep trench relatively close to the shoreline. This oceanic plate’s crust, which is slowly being pushe
