Visiting My Name Sake!

Eeeep! New Zealand was a blast, and super sad 'cause of the earthquake, but also super interesting because New Zealand between the Pacific plate and the Australian plate! Now I am off to my island of name sake, Krakatoa! There was a book written a while ago that said DIAMONDS WERE IN THE BASE OF THE VOLCANO! Maybe I'll get lucky and end up with a tennis braclet, a matching set of earings and pendant, plus tiara. Boy would that make my day...

But some backgroud on the island-

-The biggest explosion of Krakatoa was a loooong time ago, but was the loudest sound ever heard on earth, (heard from 3,000 miles away!) and killed 40,000 people.

Image of Subduction

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- Krakatoa is part of the Indonesian volcanic arc, created from the subduction of the Indo-Australian plate. ("Subduction is the process thaat takes place at convergent boundaries by which one tectonic platee moves under another tectonic plate, sinking into the earth's mantle, as the plates converge. A subduction zone is an area on earth where two tectonic plates move towards one another and one slides under the other. Rates of subduction are typically measured in centimeters per year"- Dictionary.com)
- A subduction zone involves an oceanic place sliding beneath a continental plate.
- These zones have higher rates of volcanoes, mountains, and earthquakes. (Hello, Krakatoa is like, earthquake and eruption central!)
-Krakatoa is directly above the subduction zone of the Eurasian Plate and the Australian Plate where the plate boundaries make a sharp change of direction. This results in an unusually weak crust (of the earth) in the region.

So... I hope you know a little more about Krakatoa and subduction!

see y'all later when I hit up another country!