EARTH SCIENCE

Platte Canyon High School
Bailey, Colorado

Useful Info

USEFUL INFORMATION
Plate Tectonics Vocabulary

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Benioff zone
continental drift
convection
convergent
divergent
Gondwanaland
Hess
hotspot

island arc
Laurasia
magnetic north
magnetic reversal
magnetostratigraphy
normal polarity
paleomagnetism
 

Pangaea
plate
plate tectonics
polar wandering
reverse polarity
ridge
rift
sea floor spreading
subduction
transform
trench
Wegener
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