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2 http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/slabs.html

3 http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/continents.html

4 http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/inside.html

5 http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/Farallon.html

6 http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/baseball.html

7 http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/developing.html Magnetic striping

8 http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/zones.html

9 Four types of plate boundaries: Divergent boundaries -- where new crust is generated as the plates pull away from each other. Convergent boundaries -- where crust is destroyed as one plate dives under another. Transform boundaries -- where crust is neither produced nor destroyed as the plates slide horizontally past each other. Plate boundary zones -- broad belts in which boundaries are not well defined and the effects of plate interaction are unclear. http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/understanding.html

10 http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/Vigil.html

11 http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/understanding.html Divergent boundaries

12 Map of East Africa showing some of the historically active volcanoes (red triangles) and the Afar Triangle (shaded, center) -- a so-called triple junction (or triple point), where three plates are pulling away from one another: the Arabian Plate, and the two parts of the African Plate (the Nubian and the Somalian) splitting along the East African Rift Zone. http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/East_Africa.html

13 http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/understanding.html

14 http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/fire.html

15 http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/understanding.html

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20 http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/hotspots.html

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22 http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/unanswered.html

23 http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/tectonics.html

24 References and Resources “This Dynamic Earth: The Story of Plate Tectonics” W. Jacquelyne Kious & Robert I. Tilling http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/dynamic.html http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/dynamic.html This Dynamic Planet (interactive world map) http://mineralsciences.si.edu/tdpmap/ This Dynamic Planet: A Teaching Companion http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/about/edu/dynamicplanet/ Plate Tectonics Animations http://www.nature.nps.gov/geology/usgsnps/animate/pltecan.html


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