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Sea Level and Streams

Features Associated with Subsurface Water

Cone of Depression

Groundwater Contamination

9.3 Actions at Plate Boundaries – Part II

Oceanic-Continental Convergent Boundary

Oceanic-Oceanic Convergent Boundary

Continental-Continental Convergent Boundary

Collision of India and Asia

Transform Fault Boundary

Paleomagnetism Preserved in Lava Flows

Polarity of the Ocean Crust

Hot Spot

Causes of Plate Motion 9.5 Mechanisms of Plate Motion  Mantle Convection Unequal distribution of heat within Earth causes thermal convection in the mantle that ultimately drives plate motion. masses of hotter-than-normal mantle material that ascend toward the surface, (leads to igneous activity).

Mantle Convection Models