Discuss Plate Tectonics and the Rock Cycle.

Find a news item or popular press article related to the topics above and post a link to that item to the discussion board. In the posting, make sure the title of your thread describes the article. Summarize the news article and describe how it relates to the textbook readings from chapters 12, 9 or 10. (Plate Tectonics and the Rock Cycle, Earthquakes and Volcanoes or Weathering, Landslides and Sinkholes) Identify areas in the text where the news item relates. Possible science news sources include New York Times, Washington Post, BBC, The Atlantic (longer articles, but in depth), Hakai Magazine, NASA’s Earth Observatory (great satellite imagery and maps with short writeups), Live Science, or Science News.