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Peter Styles (geologist) (252 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne on plate tectonics in the rift valley of East Africa. As well as plate tectonics Styles has specialised in the detection

Pavonis Mons (1,516 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-86698-9. Sleep, Norman H. (1994). "Martian plate tectonics". Journal of Geophysical Research. 99 (E3): 5639–5655. Bibcode:1994JGR

Azores–Gibraltar transform fault (836 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Azores–Gibraltar transform fault (AGFZ), also called a fault zone and a fracture zone, is a major seismic zone in the eastern Atlantic Ocean between

Slab (geology) (799 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

significant constituent of subduction zones. Subduction slabs drive plate tectonics by pulling along the lithosphere to which they attach in a process

Lid tectonics (762 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

has greatly reduced amounts of horizontal tectonics compared with plate tectonics (which can also be described as mobile lid tectonics). The presence

Geology of Georgia (country) (933 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

region and since the 1970s has been augmented with the understanding of plate tectonics. The Georgian Block in the Dzirula Massif is part of the Main Range

Aptian extinction (262 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

question, c. 116–117 Ma, India was located in the southern Indian Ocean; plate tectonics had not yet moved the Indian landmass into its present position.) Note

Waiʻanae Range (325 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

mountain range as a whole was created from a single volcano rather than plate tectonics. The oldest lava dated from the volcano are about 3.9 million years

Balleny hotspot (156 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

for about 160 km (99 mi) in a northwest-southeast direction. Due to plate tectonics the hot spot was under different parts of the ocean bed in the past

Balleny hotspot (156 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

for about 160 km (99 mi) in a northwest-southeast direction. Due to plate tectonics the hot spot was under different parts of the ocean bed in the past

Artemis Corona (347 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

unusual feature on Venus as it has been interpreted to be the site of plate tectonics operating on a regional scale. There are grabens and compressional

Low-velocity zone (936 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

core-mantle boundary. These LVZs may have important implications for plate tectonics and the origin of the Earth's crust. The LVZ has been interpreted to

Hypsometry (582 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

solar system, elevations are typically unimodal, owing to the lack of plate tectonics on those bodies.[citation needed] A hypsometric curve is a histogram

Dabbahu Volcano (348 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Dabbahu Volcano (also Boina, Boyna or Moina) is an active volcano located in the remote Afar Region of Ethiopia. This stratovolcano is part of the Afar

Chaîne des Puys (693 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

last eruption of a Chaîne des Puys volcano. An outstanding example of plate tectonics in action and continental rifting, the Chaîne des Puys region became

Cryptic (geology) (282 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

destroyed in the early bombardment phase, or by the continued effects of plate tectonics. The Earth accreted, its interior differentiated and its molten surface

Ecoregion (3,205 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

provinces may originate due to various barriers, including physical (plate tectonics, topographic highs), climatic (latitudinal variation, seasonal range)

Émile Argand (328 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

proponent of Alfred Wegener's theory of continental drift, viewing plate tectonics and continental collisions as the best explanation for the formation

Jerry X. Mitrovica (409 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

interactions between melting ice caps, local gravitational forces, and plate tectonics, which yield what some might find to be counterintuitive results. In

Walter C. Pitman III (663 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(2015). Plate Tectonics: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198728269. Oreskes, Naomi; Grand, Homer Le, eds. (2001). Plate tectonics :

Ancient lake (974 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the full Quaternary period. Ancient lakes continue to persist due to plate tectonics in an active rift zone. This active rift zone creates lakes that are

Mons Gruithuisen Gamma (389 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

occur there at all, as on Earth it requires the presence of water and plate tectonics - factors absent on the Moon. This makes the region a compelling target

LHS 3844 b (732 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

because if the mantle was similar in constitution to Earth's, with plate tectonics, then it should still have a thick atmosphere, unless the red dwarf

Wilhelm Michaelsen (283 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and made use of his biogeographical work for some of his ideas on plate tectonics. Michaelsen named a species of earthworm after him as Wegeneriella

Columbia River Estuary (1,798 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Columbia River Estuary is situated on the Oregon–Washington border and the Pacific Coast of the United States. It was traditionally inhabited by the

Leon Knopoff (356 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

earthquakes, earthquake prediction, the interior structure of the Earth, plate tectonics, pattern recognition, non-linear earthquake dynamics and several other

John Verhoogen (679 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

advocate of plate tectonics (according to his own words, because at Brussels his professor Paul Fourmarier was a vehement opponent of plate tectonics). In the

Sonoma orogeny (1,584 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and Mississippian age. Some geologists dispute whether convergent plate tectonics produced the Sonoma orogeny. The Havallah sequence is the informal

Geology of the Pacific Ocean (2,269 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

His theories have been verified and expanded in the development of plate tectonics. In the Early Jurassic, the supercontinent Pangaea was surrounded by

Diana Valencia (891 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

investigation, and that plate tectonics plays an important role in life on Earth, another 2007 publication, "Inevitability of Plate Tectonics on Super-Earths"

Kenneth C. Macdonald (2,263 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

two of the three types of plate boundaries central to the theory of plate tectonics. His work has taken him to the north and south Atlantic oceans, the

Gutenberg discontinuity (371 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

activity within the overlying mantle, which may be the driving force of plate tectonics-motion of sections of Earth's brittle exterior. These undulations in

The Discoverers (1,221 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

mathematics, and more-theoretical ones, such as time, evolution, plate tectonics, and relativity. Boorstin praises the inventive, human mind and its

Carolina terrane (1,477 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Gondwana) during the Neoproterozoic to Early Cambrian (625–550 MYA). Plate tectonics moved it across the Iapetus Ocean until it docked with Laurentia (now

David Gubbins (495 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

2007, and the Arthur Holmes Medal of the EGU in 2009. Seismology and plate tectonics. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press. 1990. ISBN 9780521379953

Biological rules (3,197 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

rules. For example, J.C. Briggs, in his 1987 book Biogeography and Plate Tectonics, comments that while Willi Hennig's rules on cladistics "have generally

Greater Antilles (1,299 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Lizards of the Caribbean : Ecology, Evolution, and Plate Tectonics: Ecology, Evolution, and Plate Tectonics. Oxford Series in Ecology and Evolution. Oxford

Kent Condie (269 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Mining and Technology. He specializes in the origin and evolution of plate tectonics and the continental crust and pioneered work on 'big data' geochemistry

Celâl Şengör (1,673 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Terranes: Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. London, v. 331, pp. 455–647. 1992 Plate Tectonics and Orogeny - A Tethyan Perspective: Fu Dan University Press, Shanghai

Oceanisation (141 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Dewey, John F. (2003). "Plate tectonics and geology, 1960 to today". In Oreskes, Naomi; Le Grand, Homer (eds.). Plate Tectonics: An Insider's History of

Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni (973 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Lithgow-Bertelloni, Carolina (4 October 2002). "How Mantle Slabs Drive Plate Tectonics". Science. 298 (5591): 207–209. Bibcode:2002Sci...298..207C. doi:10

Homer Eugene Le Grand (909 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

of mass before and after a chemical transformation. The 2003 book Plate Tectonics: An Insider's History of the Modern Theory of the Earth, edited by