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• Large features…
• continents
• ocean basins
• mountain ranges
• and processes…
• earthquakes
• volcanic eruptions
• due to movement of plates of Earth’s outer shell.
Cracked Egg Shell!
Parks and Plates
©2002 Robert J. Lillie
Oreo plate tectonics
These four plate tectonic processes shape the earth and its landscapes
in different ways:
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