Sources are from NationalGeographic.org
"Decompression melting involves the upward movement of Earth's mosty-solid mantle. ... Decomposition melting often occurs at divergent boundaries, where tectonic plates separate. The rifting movement causes the buoyant magma below to rise and fill the space of the lower pressure. The rock then cools into new crust."
The main cause of the Hati earthquake was at a fault that runs through Hati and is along the boundary between the Caribbean and North American plates.
Answer:
(a) Florida was completely submerged below sea level
Explanation:
- The state of Florida as located on the southernmost part of the North American lands and is bordered by the Gulf of Mexico and in the west ad northwestern Alabama.
- With a total area of about 65,757.70 km square. It now at an elevation of 100 ft. The climate of this place is temperature and somewhat sub humid and some parts are tropical. Thus called the sunshine state.
- Geologically the peninsular was a plateau and a porous land of karst topography and had an undersea extension of caves and sinkholes and springs. The limestone was topped by the sandy soil that was deposited in ancient beaches millions of years ago.
- <u>As the global sea levels rose and fell the climate was largely a peninsular savanna type.</u>
