The End

Hawaii? Nope. I got to breathe tropical air for about thirty minutes before hopping right back on a plane. Turns out I'm needed, in the Swiss Alps, of all places. So here I am, in the same place I've been for the past four days- in that weird in-between neither-here-nor-there world of airplanes.
I guess someone saw this blog, because now a new magazine wants me to write a piece on plate tectonics, focusing on the Alps. So, although I'd love to be in Hawaii right now, at least something good came out of this.

Switzerland! Who knew. This is better than Hawaii. I just got back from hiking in the mountains and need to start working on my article soon, but I thought I'd do one last little paragraph on plate tectonics before I leave this blog for good because I ACTUALLY HAVE A DECENT JOB!
So the Alps are part of what's called a convergent collision boundary. It's similar to a convergent subduction boundary except that instead of one plate moving under the other one, the plates just collide, as you can probably tell from the name. When the plates collide, they push up the rocks in between them and form mountain ranges along the plate boundaries, like this one:

So this is probably the last time I'll write on this blog. Even though I didn't get to go to Hawaii, I'd say it was worth it. Who knows, maybe I'll pop up in a magazine at some point in the near future.

Until then, thanks for reading!