In J.D. Salingerâs Catcher in the Rye, the novelâs troubled anti-hero, Holden Caulfield, gets into a strange discussion with a cab driver in New York City. Wondering what happens to the fish when a large pond in New Yorkâs Central Park freezes over for the winter, the agitated cabbie informs Holden that the fish freeze right along with the pond. When the ice melts, the fish thaw out and go on their way. Can fish and other aquatic creatures really survive in a state of suspended animation until spring?
Introduction. A divergent boundary is an area where two crustal plates are separating. Most of these tectonic plate boundaries are located on the floor of the oceans. The separating plates form rift valleys on the ocean floor where there are weaknesses in the crust. New oceanic crust. The weaknesses in the crust allow molten lava to move toward the Earth's surface on the ocean floors.
Divergent boundaries that develop in the ocean lead to the creation of mountains and volcanoes, according to the National Geographic. This occurs because magma from deep within the Earth rises at the point of a divergent boundary and creates new crust. When a divergent boundary occurs on land, it leads to the formation of a valley known as a rift. One example of a divergent boundary that is occurring on land is the Great Rift Valley. This divergent boundary is pulling the continent of Africa in two different directions. Eventually, this particular boundary is going to cause the continent to break apart into two separate land masses.