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Plate Tectonics & Mountain Building
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The World’s Mountain Ranges
Himalayas Rockies Alps Andes Alpine-Himalayan Belt Circum-Pacific Belt
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Plate Tectonics Structure of the Earth
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Structure of the Earth Crust Mantle Core
Lithosphere = Crust + Upper Mantle Lower Mantle : convection currents of magma Asthenosphere
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Plates and Plate margins
Plate Tectonics Plates and Plate margins
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Indo-Australian Plate
The World’s major Plates Eurasian Plate North American Plate African Plate Plate Plate Pacific Plate South American Plate Nazca Plate Indo-Australian Plate Australia Plate
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Plates movements & Plate margins
How do the plates move? Diverging; Converging; lateral movement Plate margins: Diverging/Constructive plate margin Converging/Destructive plate margin Conservative/Passive plate margin
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The lithosphere and the asthenosphere
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Constructive Plate Margin : Oceans
Oceanic Ridge Magma thrusts up Rifting/faulting Two plates move apart
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Mid-Atlantic Ridge Indian Ridge
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Constructive Plate Margin: continent
Lava intrusion and extrusion Plate movement Displacement of rock strata under normal faulting
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East African Rift Valley System
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Oldoiyo Volcano, E. African Rift Valley
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Destructive Plate Margin
Sea Trench Rising magma Melting of crust Heavier plate squeezed down Two plates converge Subduction
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Sea Trenches
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Passive Plate Margin San Andrea’s Fault
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San Andrea’s Fault
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Plate Margins & Ocean Floors
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