Lithospheric plates

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Introduction

Summary

Different types of observations related to lithospheric plates:

locations of plates.

topography.

age of the ocean floor.

locations of recent seismic activity and active volcanism.

geothermic waves emerging from the Earth.

Goals

• To observe the arrangement of the lithospheric plates and their respective movements.
• To make the connection between the ocean floor’s topography, seismic and volcanic activity, the age of ocean floors and geothermic waves.

Features

Rollover the map to see the borders of the lithospheric plates.

Click on [commentsEn] to obtain more information about the oceanic floor.

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