Geography in Afghanistan

Geography exists throughout our everyday lives, where we live, where we work, what we eat, and what we believe in. It plays an essential role in understanding why, where, or how something exists. For example, an introduction to geography gives the knowledge of understanding how certain landforms were formed, or why certain bodies of water exist. This further leads to how certain weather patterns form, thus creating different types of biomes and substantial agricultural productions. Geographers ask the basic questions that answer much more complex questions. This leads to the “My Country Profile Assignment,” for which I have been assigned the country of Afghanistan. Afghanistan’s radically different seasons, political geography, and its involvement in recent world affairs makes it a great country to geographically analyze. I will spend the next segments of this country profile report describing the basic concepts of Afghanistan’s geography.
Plate Tectonics and Diastrophism Plate Tectonics is describes as a large-scale change, especially if you consider the landscape of the earth during its Pangaea phase. The shifting of plates over millions of years has sculpted the geography of the earth, as we know it to be today. Plates are forever (slowly) moving and grinding however and it is important to understand how they will affect the future. The vast majority of Afghanistan sits on the Eurasian Plate. The Indian Plate is pushing towards the southeast border of Afghanistan creating a convergent boundary. This phenomenon created the Hindu Kush Mountain range, where Noshak, the highest point of elevation in Afghanistan is. Because it is a continental convergent boundary it created what is known as the Chaman Fault and many earthquakes are created in this part of Afghanistan because of the fault. This act of nature also created two main volcanoes; the Vakak Volcano and the Dacht-i-Navar Volcano. The Vakak Volcano is a hot spot that is said to have effusive