1. Continental Drift & Plate Tectonics 2. Plate Tectonics Explains…The formation of:1. Oceans2. Mid-ocean Ridges3. Trenches4. Mountains5. Earthquakes6. Volcanoes 3.…

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GeoFocus volume 17 Cécile BONNET Interactions between tectonics and surface processes in the Alpine foreland: Insights from analogue model and analysis of recent faulting…

1. Plate tectonics: Plate movement Volcanoes Map Reading 2.  Plate is the broken pieces of Earth’s crust that float above the mantle. 3.  Plateboundary is the boundaries…

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