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encapsulation package GPlately, a
plate tectonic toolkit PlateTectonicTools and a data
server which serves plate reconstruction model datasets from the...
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converging tectonic plates. Many of the
famous and most well
known volcanoes are of this type,
including those of the Ring of Fire. As the
plates move, magma...
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tectonic plate boundary where the
African plate is in the
process of
splitting into two
tectonic plates,
called the
Somali plate and the
Nubian plate...
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demonstrate the age of the Earth.
Geology provides evidence for
plate tectonics, the
evolutionary history of life, and the Earth's past climates. Geologists...
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across mountain belts include those related to the
theory of
plate tectonics (e.g.
tectonic plate convergence, folding, faulting, exhumation).
Surface processes...
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seafloor spreading.
Paleomagnetic data
continues to
extend the
history of
plate tectonics back in time,
constraining the
ancient position and
movement of continents...
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importance in
providing the
critical evidence for sea
floor spreading and
plate tectonics in the
years following World War II. The deep
ocean floor is the last...
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global forces operating over
hundreds of
millions of years. Volcanoes,
tectonic plates and
erosion all
combined to
concentrate billions of dollars' worth...
- used instead. Paleomagnetism, paleobiogeography, and
tectonic history are
among its main
tools.
Palaeogeography yields information that is
crucial to...
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allowed for the
radiocarbon dating of rocks.
Understanding of
plate tectonics developed in the
second half of the 20th century.
Rocks are composed...
