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English: Physical world map in English showing the tectonic plates boundaries with their movement vectors and selected hotspots. Français : Carte physique mondiale en anglais des limites des plaques tectoniques avec leurs vecteurs de déplacement et une sélection de hotspots.
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 ...
These plates are often grouped with an adjacent principal plate on a tectonic plate world map. For purposes of this list, a microplate is any plate with an area less than 1 million km 2 . Some models identify more minor plates within current orogens (events that lead to a large structural deformation of Earth's lithosphere ) like the Apulian ...
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.
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Earth's lithosphere, the rigid outer shell of the planet including the crust and upper mantle, is fractured into seven or eight major plates (depending on how they are defined) and many minor plates or "platelets". Where the plates meet, their relative motion determines the type of plate boundary (or fault): convergent, divergent, or transform ...
Extensional tectonics is associated with the stretching and thinning of the crust or the lithosphere.This type of tectonics is found at divergent plate boundaries, in continental rifts, during and after a period of continental collision caused by the lateral spreading of the thickened crust formed, at releasing bends in strike-slip faults, in back-arc basins, and on the continental end of ...