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Many major geological processes like volcanoes, earthquakes, mountain formation, and the arrangement of tectonic plates (Figure 1) are all results of plate
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The distribution of foci define the Wadati- Benioff zone Page 15 15 • The plate boundaries are mainly represented by oceanic
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11 sept 2008 · The tectonic plates of the world were mapped in the second half of the 20th century From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Plate tectonics (
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interactions, and geological settings are then summarized A few examples illustrate how the concept of plate tectonics has revolutionized earth sciences,
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The boundaries of lithospheric plates are defined on the basis of current tectonic activity, particularly earthquakes The pattern of earthquake epicenters
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ken up into tectonic plates On Earth, there are seven or eight major plates (depending on how they are defined) and many minor plates
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? Examples: The Himalayan and the Appalachian mountain chains Table of Contents 11 Page 12 Convergent Boundary:
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Plate tectonics is the horizontal motion of Earth's thermal boundary layer (lithosphere) over the by erosion, because the best preserved examples are
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The Hawaiian island chain are examples of hotspot volcanoes Page 46 The tectonic plate moves over a fixed hotspot forming a chain of volcanoes
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