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Plate Tectonics
Plate tectonics is the now-established theory that chunks of the Earth's crust (plates) float on the surface and change both position and size over time.
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Plate tectonics
A widely accepted theory that relates most of the geologic features near the Earth's surface to the movement and interaction of relatively thin rock plates. The theory predicts that most earthquakes occur when plates move past each other.(See also mantle.)
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plate tectonics
theory dealing with the dynamics of Earth`s outer shell, the lithosphere, that revolutionized earth sciences by providing a uniform context for ... [37 related articles]
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Plate tectonics
Plate tectonics (from the Late Latin tectonicus, from the τεκτονικός "pertaining to building"){sfn|Little|Fowler|Coulson|1990} is a scientific theory that describes the large-scale motions of Earth`s lithosphere. The theory builds on the concepts of continental drift, developed during the...
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Plate Tectonics
Theory suggesting that the Earth's surface is composed of a number of oceanic and continental plates. Driven by convection currents in the mantle, these plates have the ability to slowly move across the Earth's plastic asthenosphere. This theory is very important to geology and geomorphology because...
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Plate Tectonics
The theory that the earth's surface is divided into a few large, thick plates that are continually moving.
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plate tectonics
Major processes of plate tectonics. Credit: NASA The now widely accepted theory, formulated in the late 1960s, that Earth's crust and upper mantle, known collectively as the lithosphere, consists of moving pieces (plates) lying above a weaker semiplastic asthenosphere. About six large and more ...
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plate tectonics
plate tectonics, theory that unifies many of the features and characteristics of continental drift and seafloor spreading into a coherent model and has revolutionized geologists' understanding of continents, ocean basins, mountains, and earth history.Sections in this article:IntroductionDevelopment ...
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plate tectonics
Click images to enlargeTheory formulated in the 1960s to explain the phenomena of continental drift and sea-floor spreading, and the formation of the major physical features of the Earth's surface. The Earth's outermost layer, the lithosphere, is seen as a jigsaw puzzle of rigid major and min...
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plate tectonics
the idea that the Earth's lithosphere can be divided into a number of plates that move and interact with each other along their boundaries.
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Plate Tectonics
The theory that the earth's crust is broken into about 10 fragments (plates,) which move in relation to one another, shifting continents, forming new ocean crust, and stimulating volcanic eruptions.
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plate tectonics
plate tectonics. A theory supported by a wide range of evidence that considers the earth's crust and upper mantle to be composed of several large, thin, relatively rigid plates that move relative to one another. Slip on faults that define the plate boundaries commonly results in earthquakes.
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plate tectonics
The surface of the Earth is broken into 12 main regions, or plates. Each plate moves over the Earth's surface independent of the other plates at speeds of a few centimeters per year. Most volcanic and tectonic activity on Earth is concentrated at the boundaries between these plates. Plate tectonics ...
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plate-tectonics
platetectonics, plate-tectonics 1. A theory that explains the global distribution of geological phenomena; such as, seismicity, volcanism, continental drift, and mountain building in terms of the formation, destruction, movement, and interaction of the earth's lithospheric plates. 2. The dynamics o...
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platetectonics
platetectonics, plate-tectonics 1. A theory that explains the global distribution of geological phenomena; such as, seismicity, volcanism, continental drift, and mountain building in terms of the formation, destruction, movement, and interaction of the earth's lithospheric plates. 2. The dynamics o...
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platetectonics
1) Earth's crust and part of the upper mantle are broken into sections 2) Theory to explain seafloor spreading
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