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Preferred term
plate tectonics
Type
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Broader concept
Related concepts
- accreting plate boundary
- accretionary wedge
- active margin
- adriatic plate
- african plate
- anatolian plate
- antarctic plate
- apparent polar wandering
- arabian plate
- aseismic margin
- asthenosphere
- australian-antarctic discordance
- australian plate
- back-arc basin
- benioff zone
- caribbean plate
- cascadia subduction zone
- cocos plate
- coloured melange
- compression tectonics
- continental crust
- continental drift
- continental margin
- convection
- convection current
- crust
- crustal thickening
- crustal thinning
- deformation
- earth
- earthquake
- easter microplate
- eurasian plate
- exotic terrane
- expanding earth
- explorer plate
- extension tectonics
- farallon plate
- fault
- fault zone
- fore-arc basin
- foreland basin
- fracture zone
- galapagos rift
- geodynamics
- geosyncline
- geotectonic map
- gorda plate
- heat flow
- hot spot
- iberian plate
- indian plate
- indicator
- indo-australian plate
- intraplate process
- island arcs
- juan de fuca plate
- juan fernandez microplate
- kula plate
- laurentia
- lithosphere
- mantle
- mantle plume
- marginal basin
- marginal sea
- mechanics
- melange
- metamorphic belt
- metamorphic core complexe
- microcontinent
- microplate
- mohorovicic discontinuity
- movement
- nazca plate
- north american plate
- obduction
- ocean basin
- oceanic crust
- oceanization
- okhotsk plate
- ophiolite complex
- orogeny
- pacific plate
- paleogeography
- paleomagnetism
- partial melting
- passive margin
- philippine sea plate
- plate
- plate boundary
- plate collision
- plate convergence
- plate divergence
- plate geometry
- plate rotation
- polar wandering
- rifting
- rift zone
- rivera plate
- sea-floor spreading
- seismology
- slab
- south american plate
- spherical harmonic analysis
- spreading centers
- subduction
- subduction zone
- suture zone
- taphrogeny
- tectonic melange
- tectonics
- tectonophysics
- tectonosphere
- terrane
- tesserae
- torque
- transform fault
- transition zone
- transpression
- trench
- triple junction
- underplating
- volcanic belt
- volcanology
- west siberian plate
- wilson cycle
- wrangellia
- yangtze plate
Definitions
- In plate tectonic theory earth history, at its simplest, is one of plates rifting into pieces diverging apart and new ocean basins being born, followed by motion reversal, convergence back together, subduction of the oceanic crust, plate collision, and mountain building. This cycle of opening and closing ocean basins is the Wilson Cycle . [Wikipedia]
Obsolete
- false
In other languages
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URI
http://www.irandoc.acir/onto/irandoc/SWEETT07244
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