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Map showing Earth's principal tectonic plates and their boundaries in detail. These plates comprise the bulk of the continents and the Pacific Ocean.For purposes of this list, a major plate is any plate with an area greater than 20 million km 2 (7.7 million sq mi)
Background map: GSHHG v.2.3.7 (public domain); Plates: Prof. Peter Bird; Southwest Pacific Plates’ site; College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, Penn State; Kenneth W. Hudnut from USGS, in Earthquake Spectra, June 2006; USGS: This Dynamic Planet; The Antarctic Tectonic Region’s site; Hotspots: Earth Magazine; Written In Stone blogspot, by Dr ...
The Antarctic Tectonic Region’s site; Hotspots: Earth Magazine; Written In Stone blogspot, by Dr. Jack Share; Bernhard Steinberger: Plumes in a convecting mantle: Models and observations for individual hotspots, in Journal of Geophysical Research, May 2000; Dr. Peter Schmidt; Ridges and trenches: USGS map; USGS map; Columbia University map ...
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Geologists modeled the last billion years of Earth's tectonic plate evolution in unprecedented detail, then animated it in a mesmerizing video. Watch the last billion years of Earth's tectonic ...
Plate tectonics (from Latin tectonicus, from Ancient Greek τεκτονικός (tektonikós) 'pertaining to building') [1] is the scientific theory that Earth's lithosphere comprises a number of large tectonic plates, which have been slowly moving since 3–4 billion years ago.
Tectonic plates are made up of Earth’s crust and the rigid top layer of the mantle, known as the lithospheric mantle. The planet has around a dozen large and irregularly shaped tectonic plates ...
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