plate-tectonics
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- Non-volcanic passive margins
- Accretion (geology)Geological process by which material is added to a tectonic plate at a subduction zone
- Oceanic crustUppermost layer of the oceanic portion of a tectonic plate
- Deep-focus earthquakeEarthquake with a hypocenter depth exceeding 300 km
- Crustal recyclingTectonic recycling process
- Oceanic crustUppermost layer of the oceanic portion of a tectonic plate
- Delamination (geology)Loss of lithosphere from a tectonic plate
- Continental crustLayer of rock that forms the continents and continental shelves
- Bouvet triple junctionMeeting point of three tectonic plates
- Continental collisionFormation of mountains from converging tectonic plates
- Non-volcanic passive margins
- List of tectonic plate interactionsTypes of plate boundaries
- Intraplate deformation
- Non-volcanic passive margins
- Accretion (geology)Geological process by which material is added to a tectonic plate at a subduction zone
- Vertical displacementVertical shift of land in plate tectonics
- Accretion (geology)Geological process by which material is added to a tectonic plate at a subduction zone
- Interplate earthquakeEarthquake that occurs at the boundary between two tectonic plates
- Divergent boundaryLinear feature that exists between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other
- Apparent polar wander
- Passive marginTransition between oceanic and continental lithosphere that is not an active plate margin
- ForearcRegion between an oceanic trench and associated volcanic arc
- Crust (geology)Outermost solid shell of astronomical bodies
- Oceanic crustUppermost layer of the oceanic portion of a tectonic plate
- Continental crustLayer of rock that forms the continents and continental shelves
- Convergent boundaryRegion of active deformation between colliding tectonic plates
- Back-arc region
- Tectonic subsidenceSinking of the Earth's crust on a large scale
- Accretion (geology)Geological process by which material is added to a tectonic plate at a subduction zone
- Bouvet triple junctionMeeting point of three tectonic plates
- Continental collisionFormation of mountains from converging tectonic plates
- Continental crustLayer of rock that forms the continents and continental shelves
- Non-volcanic passive margins
- Oceanic crustUppermost layer of the oceanic portion of a tectonic plate
- Accretion (geology)Geological process by which material is added to a tectonic plate at a subduction zone
- Delamination (geology)Loss of lithosphere from a tectonic plate
- Non-volcanic passive margins
- ForearcRegion between an oceanic trench and associated volcanic arc
- Continental crustLayer of rock that forms the continents and continental shelves
- Bouvet triple junctionMeeting point of three tectonic plates
- Continental collisionFormation of mountains from converging tectonic plates
- Palmason Model
- Mantle convectionGradual movement of the planet's mantle
- Mohorovičić discontinuityBoundary between the Earth's crust and the mantle
- Slab gap hypothesisTheory in plate tectonics
- Oceanic crustUppermost layer of the oceanic portion of a tectonic plate