This Dynamic Planet Enlarged
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This Dynamic Planet Front Side Contents- This Dynamic Planet, World Map of Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Impact Craters, and Plate Tectonics, Third Edition (Published 2006), Simkin and others.
- Complete Front Side.
- About this map.
- More about this map (from back side).
- Map only.
- Map key.
- Map of Arctic Region.
- Map of Antarctic Region.
- Interpretive cross section of plates tectonics.
- Interpretive map of plates tectonics.
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This Dynamic Planet Back Side Contents- This Dynamic Planet, World Map of Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Impact Craters, and Plate Tectonics, Third Edition (Published 2006), Simkin and others.
- Complete Back Side.
- New crust grows at divergent (spreading) boundaries.
- Sea floor disappears as plates sink along deep ocean trenches.
- Colliding continents sqeeze up mountain ranges.
- Bedrock ages show oceans far younger than continents.
- Eruptions through plate interiors build hotspot volcanoes.
- Impacting extraterrestrials scar planetary surfaces.
- Transform faults -- where plates scrape horizontally past one another.
- References.
