PLATE TECTONICS SONG
Up from the depths
Magma from the core
through crustal cracks
It’ll explode and soar
mid-oceanic ridge
In the middle of the sea
Magma pushes up
New basalt it’ll be
Magma fed
Ridges grow
Pushing floor
Real slow
Magma flows
Ridge grows
Ocean floor’s
Gotta go
As mid-oceanic
Magma seeps
Along the ocean floor
Basalt creeps
Thick mantle magma
To iron-black basalt
New land’s created
At mid-ocean fault
Like a line
of pachyderms
Push to push
Floor slowly squirms
At land
Sea floor buckles down
Gives the ring of fire
Its dripping red frown
At the
Continent
is where
The sea floor’s bent
At land
Sea floor
Sinks
Down
Sea floor sinks
Subduction
Melting heat
Of friction
Basalt heavier
Than granite
Ocean floor
Goes under it
At land
Sea floor
Heads for
The cellar door
At land
Sea floor
Buckles down
Red hot frown
Floor
Cremation
By rubbing
Friction
Subduction zone
Plates converge
Plated rippled
Rocks merge
Subduction zone
Plates converge
Heavier plate
A downward urge
Magma flows
Ridges grow
Ocean floor’s
Gotta go
As mid-oceanic
Magma seeps
Along the seabed
Basalt (floor) creeps
Friction melts
The sinking plate
For this magma
A volcanic fate
The melted floor
Rises again
Erupting through
Un volcan
Ocean floor
Subduction melted
Later on
Volcano felt it
Subduction
Falling in
Floor melted
Friction
Floor falls in
Subduction
Melts basalt
Friction
Melted floor
Rises up
Through crack
To volcanic cup
Explode mountain
Erupt
Push plates
Mountains up
Mountains
Earthquakes
And volcanoes
Plates push
Explosive earth
From radioactive
That’s what the explosions
Are for