This is a list of articles related to plate tectonics and tectonic plates. Plate tectonics (from Latin tectonicus, from Ancient Greek τεκτονικός...

interactive plate-tectonic reconstructions Outline of plate tectonics – Hierarchical outline list of articles related to plate tectonics List of submarine...

past and present Outline of plate tectonics – Hierarchical outline list of articles related to plate tectonics List of rock types – List of rock types recognized...

The Caribbean plate is a mostly oceanic tectonic plate underlying Central America and the Caribbean Sea off the northern coast of South America. Roughly...

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...

major oilfields of the past and present List of plate tectonics topics – Hierarchical outline list of articles related to plate tectonicsPages displaying...

occurs throughout the study of tectonics on Mars. In general, Mars lacks unambiguous evidence that terrestrial-style plate tectonics has shaped its surface...

composition; its dynamics and their surface expression in plate tectonics, the generation of magmas, volcanism and rock formation. However, modern geophysics...

parts of the Pacific Ocean. The Andesite Line and the Ring of Fire closely match in terms of location. The development of the theory of plate tectonics since...

winterfat. Parts of the basin are used seasonally for pasture. Geology of Kazakhstan Outline of plate tectonics Panthalassa Changes in glaciation of the Balkhash–Alakol...

The theory of continental drift has since been validated and incorporated into the science of plate tectonics, which studies the movement of the continents...

fluxes of various chemical substances and physical properties within the ocean and across its boundaries; ecosystem dynamics; and plate tectonics and seabed...

and helped to overthrow the old geosynclinal hypothesis in favour of plate tectonics. In 1964 a 25-metre-long concrete wall was built across the fault...

spring and summer, large swathes of it are used for pasture. Geology of Kazakhstan Kazakh Steppe Outline of plate tectonics Rudmin, Maxim; Kalinina, Natalia;...

The tectonics of Indonesia are very complex, as it is a meeting point of several tectonic plates. Indonesia is located between two continental plates: the...

"Geological understanding of plate tectonics: Basic concepts, illustrations, examples and new perspectives". Global Tectonics and Metallogeny. 10: 23–46...

Following the period of late Paleozoic convergence that led to the collision of Patagonia with Gondwana, a transition to extensional tectonics in the Triassic...

extinction – mass extinction – fossil – taphonomy – geologic time – plate tectonics – continental drift – vicariance – Gondwana – Pangaea – endosymbiosis...

scales; evolutionary biology, which studies how life evolves over time; plate tectonics, which shows how continents shift over millennia; and sociology, which...

operation of lid tectonics (comparable to the tectonics operating on Mars and Venus) during Precambrian times, as opposed to the plate tectonics seen on...

process causes the lithospheric plates to move, albeit slowly. The resulting process is known as plate tectonics. Areas of the crust where new crust is created...

history of plate tectonics back in time, constraining the ancient position and movement of continents and continental fragments (terranes). The field of paleomagnetism...

earliest effort to relate plate tectonics specifically to the Antler orogeny was briefly outlined by E.M. Moores: A collision of this continental margin...

composition; its dynamics and their surface expression in plate tectonics, the generation of magmas, volcanism and rock formation. However, modern geophysics...

mathematics to the understanding of how mantle convection leads to plate tectonics and geologic phenomena such as seafloor spreading, mountain building...

the continental shelf of Borneo. The Cenozoic plate tectonics of the Indonesian region have generated a complex assemblage of micro-continental blocks...

are minor, compared with the activity at their margins and between tectonic plates. Shields occur on all continents. The term shield cannot be used interchangeably...

includes studies of the environmental effects of earthquakes such as tsunamis; other seismic sources such as volcanoes, plate tectonics, glaciers, rivers...

and tectonic subsidence has produced the gaps in between. The Alps arose as a result of the collision of the African and Eurasian tectonic plates, in...

geological history of the Earth as a whole. One aspect is to demonstrate the age of the Earth. Geology provides evidence for plate tectonics, the evolutionary...