Texas – poverty rate 2000-2019 13.6 percent of Texas’s population lived below the poverty line in 2019. What percentage of Texans live below the poverty line? Looking at multi-year averages for Texas, the state’s official poverty rate for 2018-2020 of 12.9% (3.7 million people) is significantly worse than the national […]
List of 25 Wealthiest Zipcodes in Texas Rank Zipcode Zip Name 1 77010 Houston 2 75225 Dallas 3 78746 Austin What is the wealthiest zipcode in Texas? Fort Worth (75205) is the richest zip code in Texas, certainly a great place to live and build a career. What zip code […]
Current Dallas County Median Income Limits Family Size Very Low Income (30% of Median) Low Income (50% of Median) 1 $18,700 $31,150 2 $21,400 $35,600 3 $24,050 $40,000 4 $26,700 $44,500 What counts as low income in Texas? Currently, a single person living on a yearly salary of $10,830 or […]
Rifting can be caused when hot material from a mantle plume reaches the base of a continental plate and causes the overlying lithosphere to heat up. In addition to this the uwards movement of the plume against the base of the plate results in extensional forces which can cause rifting. […]
Areas where plates are colliding form convergent boundaries, and areas where plates are expanding create divergent boundaries. Rift valleys are formed by divergent boundaries that involve continental plates. What type of plate boundary is a rift valley? Many rift valleys are part of “triple junctions,” a type of divergent boundary […]
The grinding action between the plates at a transform plate boundary results in shallow earthquakes, large lateral displacement of rock, and a broad zone of crustal deformation. Perhaps nowhere on Earth is such a landscape more dramatically displayed than along the San Andreas Fault in western California. What will result […]
Working together—the Rio Grande Rift, volcanoes, rivers, wind—along with time, these earth forming forces continue to shape and form New Mexico’s landscape. Before the rift formed, streams flowed from west to east, emptying into the Gulf of Mexico. How were the New Mexico mountains formed? These mountains were formed by […]
Six to seven million years ago, a period of intense volcanic activity from the Jemez Volcanic Field resulted in “pyroclastic flows”, that being avalanches of rock fragments and hot gases, and the deposition of pumice and ashes, forming a layer nearly 1,000 feet thick. What caused the rock formations in […]
The Rio Grande rift is a north-trending continental rift zone. It separates the Colorado Plateau in the west from the interior of the North American craton on the east. The rift extends from central Colorado in the north to the state of Chihuahua, Mexico, in the south. What type of […]
The Rio Grande begins as an east-flowing stream in the San Juan Mountains in Colorado. The river turns near Alamosa, Colorado, and flows southward through a series of en echelon (slightly overlapping, east or west stepping), elongated basins that bisect southern Colorado and the state of New Mexico. Where does […]
Divergent plate boundaries, which are associated with the formation of rift valleys, occur when plates move away from one another. Convergent plate boundaries move toward one another, pushing into one another and are likely to create mountain ranges. Do divergent plates cause rifts? Divergent boundaries within continents initially produce rifts, […]
The world’s tallest mountain ranges form when pieces of Earth’s crust—called plates—smash against each other in a process called plate tectonics, and buckle up like the hood of a car in a head-on collision. The Himalaya in Asia formed from one such massive wreck that started about 55 million years […]
divergent boundary. Many rift valleys are part of “triple junctions,” a type of divergent boundary where three tectonic plates meet at about 120° angles. Two arms of the triple junction can split to form an entire ocean. What type of plate boundary formed the East African Rift Valley? divergent plate […]
A rift valley is a lowland region that forms where Earth’s tectonic plates move apart, or rift. A rift valley is a lowland region that forms where Earth’s tectonic plates move apart, or rift. Rift valleys are found both on land and at the bottom of the ocean, where they […]
The Colorado Plateau, with a smorgasbord of awe-inspiring rock formations and geological features, rises dramatically from the Rio Grande rift. The rift is a large, sunken region in the middle of the North American continental plate. What tectonic plates formed the Rio Grande Rift? In the western part of the […]