divergent plate block diagram and cookie demonstration
Volcanic eruptions and shallow earthquakes are common where plates rip apart.
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Photos and illustrations above modified from “Oregon's Island in the Sky: Geology Road Guide to Marys Peak, by Robert J. Lillie, Wells Creek Publishers, 75 pp., 2017, www.amazon.com/dp/1540611965.