Geology of the Rocky Mountains Japan, Indonesia and the Aleutians; others are fragments of oceanic crust obducted onto the continental margin while others represent small isolated mid-oceanic islands. Magma generated above the subducting slab rose into the North American continental crust about inland. Great arc-shaped volcanic mountain ranges, known as the Sierran Arc, grew as lava and ash spewed out of dozens of individual volcanoes. Beneath the surface, great masses of molten rock were injected and hardened in place. For 270 million years, the effects of plate collisions were focused very near the edge of the North American plate boundary, far to the west of
To the Ends of the Earth comments and advice. "Rites" explores the cruelties of men in groups, and the tensions as they struggle over status and place in their artificial society on the ship. In 2005 the books were adapted as a BBC drama serial starring Benedict Cumberbatch. Named "To The Ends of the Earth," the series was directed by David Attwood. To the Ends of the Earth To the Ends of the Earth is the name given to a trilogy of nautical, relational novels—"Rites of Passage" (1980), "Close Quarters" (1987), and "Fire Down Below" (1989)—by British author William Golding. Set on a former British man-of-war