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THE EARTH | Plate Tectonics |
Plate Tectonics is the theory that the lithosphere (the outer part of solid Earth) is divided into a small number of plates that float on and travel independently over the plastic layer of the Earth's mantle (the asthenosphere). Much of the Earth's seismic activity and volcanism, along with mountain-building processes, occurs at the boundaries of these plates.
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Plate
Tectonics - basic quick intro, good if you know nothing about this
subject
This
Dynamic Earth:The Story of Plate Tectonics, by W. Jaquelyne
Kious and Robert I. Tilling, (on-line edition) from the U.S.Department
of the Interior - U.S.Geological Survey
The
ABC's of Plate Tectonics - by Donald L. Blanchard
Plate
Tectonics - in GondwanaLand
page
STRUCTURE
OF THE EARTH AND PLATE TECTONICS
PLATE
TECTONICS - FORCES AND FEATURES
July
1996 PaleoMap Prospectus various geotopics including plate tectonics
plate tectonics icon from This
Dynamic Earth:The Story of Plate Tectonics, by W. Jaquelyne Kious and
Robert I. Tilling, (on-line edition)