UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DANIEL ALCIDES CARRIÓN

FACULTAD DE INGENIERÍA
ESCUELA DE FORMACIÓN PROFESIONAL DE INGENIERÍA GEOLÓGICA

TECTONIC PLATES

COURSE:
ENGLISH
TEACHER:
ING. MUÑOZ FERNANDES, NEFTALI EUCLIDES
STUDENT:
MORALES PORTAL, Jheyson
 What are Tectonic
TECTONIC PLATES
Plates?

La litosfera

Tectonic plates are

fragments of the
lithosphere, composed
of the upper part of the
upper mantle and the The continental
earth's crust, that The oceanic
behave as a strong,
lithosphere is Beneath the In the asthenosphere
lithosphere, where its
relatively cold and rigid usually 100-150 lithosphere, there is the rocks are in a
thickness varies from
layer. kilometers thick, a very ductile mantle state of fusion
a few kilometers in
region, known as the (molten rocks). It is
the mid-ocean ridges although it can asthenosphere, on this
to 100 kilometers in reach 250 where the asthenosphere that
the deep ocean
kilometers in temperature and the tectonic plates
basins.
older portions of pressure are so high. "slide".
the continents.
Plate limits
Plate boundary typesThey can be of three types according to the relative movement of the
plates:
❖ Divergent or dorsal limits: the movement is of separation.
❖ Convergent limits or trenches: the movement is approximation.
❖ Limits or transforming faults: the movement is parallel.
The Wilson Cycle
Tuzo Wilson made a theoretical model that summarizes the possible evolution of the plates. Divide the
possible situations into stages named with the name of the area where we can currently find that situation,
you will learn how the plates evolve and in which areas of the planet the situations are occurring.

El Monte Everest, máxima altura del Himalaya,

formado por la colisión de las placas Euroasiática e
India durante la orogenia Alpina, es una de las
consecuencias de la tectónica de placas descrita por
el Ciclo de Wilson.