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CIRCLE OF FIRE AND ITS IMPORTANCE IN PERU I DESCRIPTION The circle of fire is an area of the world characterized by concentrating

the mayor subduction zone in the world, so that it is causing intense seismic and volcanic activity. The Ring of Fire is a direct result of plates tectonic, at the same time the eastern section is the result of the subduction of the Nazca Plate and the Cocos plate beneath the South American plate. Cocos Plate is sinking beneath the Caribbean Plate in Central America. A portion of the Pacific Plate along with the small Juan of Fuca plate sinks below the North American plate. The circle of fire is containing the arc of Aleutian islands , arcs of the pennsula of Kamchatka and smaller tectonic plates. The most of volcanoes in the world are in this circle of fire therefore in this zone the volcanic activity will be high. This is located on the shores of the Pacific Ocean, includes countries such as Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Central America (Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala) Mexico, the United States, Canada, then fold up to the Aleutian Islands and down the coasts and islands of Russia, China, Japan, Taiwan, Philippines, Indonesia, Australia and at last New Zealand. The ring of fire has 40,000 km extention that which it has shape of a horseshoe. The subduction between an oceanic crust and continental crust is causing the mineralization of course the metals with economic interes so we have several mineral deposits. an example is the epithermal deposit, porfiric deposit among other. The water of the crust ocean is very important for forming the hydrotermal fluids so as to form ore .

The ring of fire has trenches as well as rocks andesitic (in these cases because there are volcanic activity) .W e dont forget that 90% of the world 's largest earthquakes occur along the Ring of Fire. Peru is located on the Pacific Ring of Fire , therefore , is liable to be affected by the occurrence of earthquakes likewise they are more common and larger when they occur on the western edge of South America. The earthquakes are caused by the interaction of the plates, large pieces of the mosaic that forms the crust, all in constant movement. Globally, only the Nazca plate reaches travel speeds of 8-10 cm / year, so from time to time the seismic movements occur in the all Peru. While the pressure difference of east and west pacific are going to originate and modified by the thermal variations thats why the convection currents are going to originate the zones of

decompression. it influences in the phenomenon of the child Peru has geothermal resources very important with great potential energic in question these resourses can generate electric energy as far as I am concerned these havent been used in Peru. CONCLUSIONS 1. The mineral deposits was forming for different chemical and physical properties not in the least they wouldnt form without the existence of the ring of fire. 2. The seismic movements are normal events in the area in which we are. 3. We have resource geothermal in Peru with great potential that we dont use. SUGGESTIONS 1. Id like to point out that our country has geothermal and mineral resources they should be exploited. 2. Personally I think that we must prepare a plan of mitigate for decreasing the effects of seismic movement. 3. We can use geothermical energy as a matter of fact its transformation in electric energy also in the Industrial process

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