Essays Tagged: "Trans Mexican Volcanic Belt"
Popocatepetl
e past 5,000 years (Ray, 2001).Subduction of Cocos & Rivera Plates Popocate'petl is part of the Trans-Mexico Volcano Belt (TMVB) (fig. 3). "Volcanic activity related to the Trans-Mexican Volcanic ... . These two plates "spread away" from the East Pacific Rise, and are separated from each other by a transform fault known as the Rivera fracture zone (Johnson, 1991). This fracture zone results from t ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > Central & Southamerican History