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http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/slabs.html. http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/continents.html. http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/inside.html. http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/Farallon.html. http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/baseball.html. Magnetic striping. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Four types of plate boundaries: Divergent boundaries -- where new crust is generated as the plates pull away from each other. Convergent boundaries -- where crust is destroyed as one plate dives under another. Transform boundaries -- where crust is neither produced nor destroyed as the plates slide horizontally past each other. Plate boundary zones -- broad belts in which boundaries are not well defined and the effects of plate interaction are unclear.
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/understanding.html
Map of East Africa showing some of the historically active volcanoes (red triangles) and the Afar Triangle (shaded, center) -- a so-called triple junction (or triple point), where three plates are pulling away from one another: the Arabian Plate, and the two parts of the African Plate (the Nubian and the Somalian) splitting along the East African Rift Zone.
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/East_Africa.html
References and Resources“This Dynamic Earth: The Story of Plate Tectonics”
W. Jacquelyne Kious & Robert I. Tilling http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/dynamic.html
This Dynamic Planet (interactive world map)http://mineralsciences.si.edu/tdpmap/
This Dynamic Planet: A Teaching Companionhttp://volcanoes.usgs.gov/about/edu/dynamicplanet/
Plate Tectonics Animationshttp://www.nature.nps.gov/geology/usgsnps/animate/pltecan.html