The Aleutian Islands

Today we visited the Aleutian Islands. They are a range of multiple volcanic islands within the boundary of the North American Plate and the Pacific Plate. Me, Sandra, and Michael took a boat down the coast of the islands. The view was spectacular. The snow tipped volcanoes were completely out of this world. We visited an island called Unalaska where a small amount of people lived. Many Russians lived there since the islands went all the way to Kamchatka in Russia. The view at the top, shows a night view of the Aleutian, all courtesy of that photo goes to Michael, my dear Armenian friend.
The Aleutian islands are a convergent boundary (subduction zone), A subduction zone, or a convergent boundary, is a place in the plates (usually involving at least one oceanic plate and sometimes a continental plate) where one plate goes under the other one and forms a trench. After the plate goed under and the other gets low enough into the asthenoshpere, the plate will melt and the magma will rise to the surface and form a volcano. This is exactly how the volcanoes formed because of the North American plate going under the Pacific plate. The picture to the right shows a simple drawing of the convergent boundary.
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Thanks much
margee