Earth:List of plate tectonics topics

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Short description: Hierarchical outline list of articles related to plate tectonics

This is a list of articles related to plate tectonics and tectonic plates.

What is plate tectonics?

General concepts

Tectonic plate interactions

Tectonic plate interactions – Movements of Earth's lithosphere

Back arc basins

Earth:Back-arc basin – Submarine features associated with island arcs and subduction zones

Continents

Earth:Continent – Large geographical region identified by convention

Earth:Supercontinent – Landmass comprising more than one continental core, or craton

Paleocontinents

Earth:Paleocontinent – A distinct area of continental crust that existed as a major landmass in the geological past

Earthquakes

Earth:Earthquake – Sudden movement of the Earth's crust

Oceans

Earth:Ocean – Body of salt water covering the majority of Earth

Ancient oceans

Earth:List of ancient oceans – List of Earth's former oceans

  • Earth:Mirovia – Hypothesized superocean surrounding the supercontinent Rodinia in the Neoproterozoic Era
  • Earth:Panthalassa – Prehistoric superocean that surrounded Pangaea
  • Earth:Tethys Ocean – Prehistoric ocean between Gondwana and Laurasia

Superoceans

Earth:Superocean – Ocean that surrounds a supercontinent

  • Earth:Mirovia – Hypothesized superocean surrounding the supercontinent Rodinia in the Neoproterozoic Era
  • Earth:Panthalassa – Prehistoric superocean that surrounded Pangaea

Orogenies

Physics:Orogeny – The formation of mountain ranges

Rifts

Earth:Rift – Geological linear zone where the lithosphere is being pulled apart

Active rifts

  • Earth:Propagating rifts – Seafloor features associated with spreading centers at mid-ocean ridges and back-arc basins

Continental rifts

  • Earth:Laptev Sea Rift – A divergent tectonic plate boundary between the North American Plate and the Eurasian Plate

Oceanic ridges

Aulacogens

Subduction zones

Subduction zone – A geological process at convergent tectonic plate boundaries where one plate moves under the other

Suture zones

Earth:Suture (geology) – Joining together of separate terranes along a major fault zone

Tectonic plates

Terranes

Triple junctions

Earth:Triple junction – Meeting point of three tectonic plates

Other plate tectonics topics

Specific areas

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