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This intermediate-level animation describes what the tectonic (lithospheric) plates are and how they interact. It differentiates between continental and oceanic plates, and between the three major types of boundaries.
- Plate Tectonic Boundaries
Viewers will learn to define a tectonic or lithospheric...
- Plate Tectonic Boundaries
1 Οκτ 2024 · The concept of plate tectonics was formulated in the 1960s. According to the theory, Earth has a rigid outer layer, known as the lithosphere, which is typically about 100 km (60 miles) thick and overlies a plastic (moldable, partially molten) layer called the asthenosphere.
1 Οκτ 2024 · Plate tectonics - Development, Theory, Earth: The outlines of the continents flanking the Atlantic Ocean are so similar that their correspondence was apparent as soon as accurate maps became available.
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.
1 Οκτ 2018 · Evidence from the rock record indicates that the modern episode of plate tectonics began in Neoproterozoic time. A Neoproterozoic transition from single lid to plate tectonics also explains kimberlite ages, the Neoproterozoic climate crisis and the Neoproterozoic acceleration of evolution.
15 Μαΐ 2017 · One critical development that gave rise to oceans, an atmosphere and the first life forms was the onset of plate tectonics: a shifting puzzle of interconnected slabs of upper mantle and crust that collide and diverge, generating earthquakes, fueling volcanoes, opening ocean basins and raising mountain ranges.
This chapter illustrates the most significant revolution in the understanding of the Earth discovered in the last 75 years, plate tectonics. The theory of plate tectonics is the second overarching precept of the field of geology (after the geologic time scale). Plate tectonics and its history as a theory are traced in this chapter.
