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    Plate tectonics is the unifying theory that explains the distribution of volcanoes, earthquakes, mountains, and seafloor structures through the movement of crustal plates driven by convection currents in the mantle. The lecture will outline the evolution of the plate tectonics theory, the mosaic of Earth's crustal plates, the history of plate motions, how mantle convection provides the engine for plate tectonics, and how plate tectonics exemplifies the scientific method.

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    Plate tectonics is the unifying theory that explains the distribution of volcanoes, earthquakes, mountains, and seafloor structures through the movement of crustal plates driven by convection currents in the mantle. The lecture will outline the evolution of the plate tectonics theory, the mosaic of Earth's crustal plates, the history of plate motions, how mantle convection provides the engine for plate tectonics, and how plate tectonics exemplifies the scientific method.

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    Plate Tectonics: The Unifying Theory About Plate Tectonics

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    Plate tectonics is the unifying theory that explains the distribution of volcanoes, earthquakes, mountains, and seafloor structures through the movement of crustal plates driven by convection currents in the mantle. The lecture will outline the evolution of the plate tectonics theory, the mosaic of Earth's crustal plates, the history of plate motions, how mantle convection provides the engine for plate tectonics, and how plate tectonics exemplifies the scientific method.

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    Plate Tectonics:

    The Unifying theory


    About Plate Tectonics
    It is the movement of plates and the forces acting between them.
    It explains the distribution of volcanoes, earthquakes, folded mountain chains, rock
    assemblages, and seafloor structures.
    The forces that drive plate motions arise from the mantle convection system.
    Lecture Outline
    1 Evolution of the theory of plate tectonics
    . !osaic of the Earth"s crustal plates
    #. $ates and history of plate motion
    %. !antle convection& the engine of plate tectonics
    '. Theory of plate tectonics and the scientific method

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