Moving Plates

RESULTS OF SEPARATING PLATES (Diverging Plates)

1. Mid-Oceanic Ridge (may be named for the ocean which it is in)
 
 

2. Rift Zone

3. Fault, Volcanoes, Earthquakes

RESULTS OF COLLIDING PLATES (Converging Plates)
1. Oceanic-Continental Collision

     * Andes Mountains
 
 
 

2. Continent-Continent Collision

     * Himalayas Mountains
3. Oceanic-Oceanic Collision
 
 

     * Japan
 
     * Philippines

4. Folding (not on web)

     * Rocky Mountains
 

5. Block Fault Mountain(not on web)

     *Sierra Nevada Mountains

6. Faults, Volcanoes, Earthquakes

RESULTS OF PASSING PLATES
1. Transform Fault

2. Earthquakes

RESULTS OF A HOT SPOT
1)Hot Spot-

 Hawaiian Islands-
 
 

 Yellowstone(not on web)-
 
 

2) Volcano, Earthquakes

BASIC DEFINITIONS
Fault
 

Volcano
 

Earthquake
 
 

Plate Tectonic Theory (First Web Site)
Introduction
 
 
 

Layers of the Earth
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Pangaea
 
 
 
 
 
 

SUPPORTS FOR THE THEORY
1)Fossils
 
 
 

2) Rock Sequences
 
 

3) Glaciation
 

4) Climate Zones
 
 
 
 
 

5) Sea-Floor Spreading (Magnetic Banding)