CASCADIA SUBDUCTION ZONE

LOCATION

• Cascade Mountain
• Oregon
• Washington

RELATES TO TECTONIC PLATES

• plate tectonics formed mountains
• California is at the end of a plate tectonic
• Plate tectonics make the shape of the mountains

SUBDUCTION

• Subduction caused a chain of active volcanoes
• Juan de fuca plate is subducting beneath the North America
• All of this caused the cascade subduction zone

DEFORMATION

• Deformation took place during subduction
• It formed the mountains
• It was very important in the cascade mountains