There are 3 primary types of Tectonic Plate boundaries: Divergent boundaries; Covergent boundaries; and Transform boundaries. As the giant plates move, diverging [pulling apart] or converging [coming together] along their borders, tremendous energies are unleashed resulting in tremors that transform Earth’s surface.
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www.platetectonics.com/book/page_5.asp
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The Story of Plate Tectonics;; The story of Plate Tectonics is a fascinating story of continents drifting majestically from place to place breaking apart, colliding, and grinding against each other; of terrestrial mountain ranges rising up like rumples in rugs being pushed together;
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The place where the two plates meet is called a plate boundary. Boundaries have different names depending on how the two plates are moving in relationship to each other ... With respect to plate boundaries is your home located in the middle of, or near the boundary of a plate? What does this mean for you tectonically?
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www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/msese/earthsysflr/plates1.html
www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/msese/earthsysflr/plates1.html
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Plate tectonics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Plate tectonics (from the Greek τέκτων; tektōn , meaning "builder" or "mason") is a theory which describes the large scale motions of Earth's lithosphere. The theory builds on the older concepts of...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plate_tectonics
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There are four types of plate boundaries: ... Illustration of the Main Types of Plate Boundaries [55 k] ... Not all plate boundaries are as simple as the main types discussed above. In some regions, the boundaries are not well defined because the plate-movement deformation occurring there extends over a broad belt (called a...
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Artist's cross section illustrating the main types of plate boundaries (see text); East African Rift Zone is a good example of a continental rift zone. ... "Understanding plate motions"
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MAP SHOWING PLATE BOUNDARIES ... The yellow dots indicate locations of earthquakes that have occurred in the period 1960 to 1985. The red triangles are the locations of volcanic eruptions that have occurred in the period 1980 to 1995. Both the earthquakes and the volcanic eruptions follow the plate boundaries.
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www.geo.utep.edu/kidd/Vol_eq_plates.html
www.geo.utep.edu/kidd/Vol_eq_plates.html
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Shifting and Sliding ... Along the boundary separating any two plates, the relative motion between the plates can be classified into one of 3 categories: Click Below to find out more.
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www.thetech.org/exhibits_events/online/quakes/plates/te...
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