Tectonic Plates Definitions

Plate Tectonics

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A theory that explains the structure of Earth's crust and other connected phenomenas.

Continental Drift

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A drift that gives motion to the continents.

Pangea

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The beginning of continets of the planet Earth before they formed the continents we know today.

Panthalassa

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Panthalassa, also known as the Panthalassic Ocean, was the vast global ancestral Pacific ocean that surrounded the supercontinent Pangaea

Oceanic Crust

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The crust that is at underneath the ocean level.

Continental Crust

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The crust of the Earth that is formed with the continets.

Convergent Boundray

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In plate tectonics, a convergent boundary, also known as a destructive plate boundary (because of subduction), is an actively deforming region where two (or more) tectonic plates or fragments of the lithosphere move toward one another and collide.

Divergent Boundray

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A linear feature that exists between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other.

Transform Boundray

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Atransform boundary, create nor destroy lithosphere, is a type of fault whose relative motion is predominantly horizontal in either sinistral or dextral direction.

Radioactive Dating

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The dating of rocks and mineral by using half lifes.