#Plate Tectonics
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I still need more help. Any one know a place where I can find maps of plate
boundries?
> I still need more help. Any one know a place where I can find maps of
> plate boundries?
The library would be a good place to start. What kind of info are you
looking for?
Mike
1993 Information Please Almanac, page 480
Hi, Megan–
I am away from home, but I seem to remember something like that in my atlas.
Have you checked yours? If not specifically plate maps, many will have a
relief map of the sea floors; the spreading ridges are easy to spot, and
trenches mark some of the subduction zones if not all. Old Scientific
Americans often have partial maps of this sort, and the latest issue shows maps
of presumed continental motions _before_ the supercontinent Pangaea formed
(bear in mind this is on much thinner evidence than what we have about the
breakup of Pangaea and movements since then).
I hope you are following the other discussions of plate tectonics in the
"Transform faults" and "Subduction.." threads; there is a lot of info about how
the theory works and evidence for/against being kicked around.
–Doug
I am not sure how much detail you are looking for, but Tasa Graphic Arts, Inc.
offers a multimedia CD on the theory of Plate tectonics. I haven't received my
copy yet, so I don't know how good it is. There address is 15 Nexus Lane,
Tijeras, NM 87059.