Plate Tectonics
Plate tectonics
Prentice Hall Earth Science ch09 plate tectonics
Continental drift: an idea before its time Alfred Wegener First proposed hypothesis, 1915 Published The Origin of Continents and Oceans Continental.
Plate Tectonics. What is Plate Tectonics? According to the plate tectonics theory, the uppermost mantle, along with the overlying crust, behaves as a.
© 2006 Pearson Prentice Hall Lecture Outlines PowerPoint Chapter 8 Earth Science 11e Tarbuck/Lutgens.
Volcanoes. Types of Eruptions Violent and explosive Quiet and flowing –Depends on trapped gases and magma composition.
Tuesday November 2, 2010 (Types of Plate Boundaries)
Plate Tectonics and earthquakes. Alfred Wegener Proposed hypothesis in 1915 Continental drift hypothesis Supercontinent Pangaea began breaking apart about.
Ch – 26 Electric Field. Electric Field Model One or more charges (source charges) alter the space around them by creating an electric field, E. A separate.
Ch – 15 Plate Tectonics. Earth ’ s layers by physical properties Crust and upper mantle: –Lithosphere – rigid solid which make up the tectonic plates,
