The Pacific Ring of fire + Formation of the continents

... LCKBRI001 The Ring Of fire Brian Lockyer The Pacific Ocean throughout history has been synonymous with stories of explorers who discovered large amounts of natural mineral deposits in the form of valuable metals such as silver, gold and copper. The perimeter of the Pacific Ocean largely consists of volcanoes and large areas of land that regularly undergo vicious seismic activity. There is a unique link between the occurrences of earthquakes and the distribution of the mineral wealth around the Pacific and it is this connection between the two that is the biggest clue to one of the most puzzling questions about the Earth: How did the continents form? The 'Ring of fire' outlines the perimeter of the Pacific Ocean, it extends 40 000km from New Zealand all the way north, through the Phillipines, up to Japan and across the Aleutian trench and then south along the west coasts of North and

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