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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Eurasian Plate
		The Eurasian Plate is a tectonic plate covering Eurasia (a landmass consisting of the continents Europe and Asia) except that it does not cover the Indian subcontinent, the Arabian subcontinent, and the area east of the Verkhoyansk Range in East Siberia.
		The easterly side is a boundary with the North American Plate to the north and a boundary with the Philippine Plate to the south, and possibly with the Okhotsk Plate and the Amurian Plate.
		The southerly side is a boundary with the African Plate to the west, the Arabian Plate in the middle and the Indo-Australian Plate to the east.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Eurasian-Plate (751 words)

	FEMA FOR KIDS: Is the world shaking more than before?
		Each plate moves at a constant speed - some as fast as the growth of your fingernail - but the movement is usually impeded at the boundaries where two plates are in contact.
		The deadly earthquake in Turkey on August 17 was along the North Anatolian fault, where the Turkish microplate is sliding past the Eurasian plate.
		The magnitude 7.6 Taiwan earthquake occurred on September 20 along the Shundong fault, where the westward-moving Philippine Sea plate collides with and overrides the Eurasian plate.
	www.fema.gov /kids/shake.htm (0 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Indian Subcontinent
		The Indian subcontinent is a peninsular landmass of the Asian continent occupying the Indian Plate and extending into the Indian Ocean, bordered on the north by the Eurasian Plate.
		The Eurasian plate, shown in green The Eurasian Plate is a tectonic plate covering Eurasia (a landmass consisting of the continents Europe and Asia) except that it does not cover the Indian subcontinent, the Arabian subcontinent, and the area east of the Verkhoyansk Range in East Siberia.
		Plates in the crust of the earth, according to the plate tectonics theory Continental drift, proposed as a theory by Alfred Wegener in 1912, is the movement of the Earths continents relative to each other.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Indian-Subcontinent (3239 words)

	Plate Tectonics - MSN Encarta
		Plate Tectonics, theory of global tectonics (geological structural deformations) that has served as a master key, in modern geology, for understanding the structure, history, and dynamics of the Earth’s lithosphere, which includes the crust.
		Although the plate tectonics revolution in geological thought occurred only recently (in the 1960s and 1970s), the roots of the theory were established by earlier observation and deduction.
		Where an oceanic tectonic plate is subducted beneath continental crust, the magma produced by subductive melting erupts from volcanoes situated among long, linear mountain chains, such as the Cordillera, up to 100 km inland from the zone of subduction.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761554623/Plate_Tectonics.html (1582 words)

	Life in the Universe > Life on the Earth > The Earth is a Unique Planet > Plate Tectonics (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Plate tectonics is a vital part of the global cycle that maintains the carbon balance between atmosphere, hydrosphere and lithosphere.
		The plate boundaries (see the diagram) are characterised by different types of tectonic activity, depending on whether new crust is being formed or old crust destroyed.
		Where plates move past each other, transform faults develop, associated with which are some of the world's major earthquake zones, e.g., the San Andreas fault in California, where the Pacific plate is moving eastwards against the north-north westwards moving North American plate at a rate of ~ 1 cm per year.
	www.lifeinuniverse.org /noflash/Platetectonics-05-02-01.html (680 words)

	Earth's Continental Plates - ZoomSchool.com
		At the boundaries of the plates, various deformations occur as the plates interact; they separate from one another (seafloor spreading), collide (forming mountain ranges), slip past one another (subduction zones, in which plates undergo destruction and remelting), and slip laterally.
		Seafloor spreading is the movement of two oceanic plates away from each other (at a divergent plate boundary), which results in the formation of new oceanic crust (from magma that comes from within the Earth's mantle) along a a mid-ocean ridge.
		Plate tectonics from the University of Tennessee (Knoxville).
	www.enchantedlearning.com /subjects/astronomy/planets/earth/Continents.shtml (0 words)

	ScienceMaster - JumpStart - Plate Motion
		Plate boundary zones -- broad belts in which boundaries are not well defined and the effects of plate interaction are unclear.
		Even though the Nazca Plate as a whole is sinking smoothly and continuously into the trench, the deepest part of the subducting plate breaks into smaller pieces that become locked in place for long periods of time before suddenly moving to generate large earthquakes.
		Land on the west side of the fault zone (on the Pacific Plate) is moving in a northwesterly direction relative to the land on the east side of the fault zone (on the North American Plate).
	www.sciencemaster.com /jump/earth/plate_motion.php (2550 words)

	Plate Tectonics Homework Key
		An oceanic plate (Cocos Plate) is subducted beneath another oceanic plate (Caribbean Plate) forming an oceanic trench to the west and active composite volcanoes that have coalesced into the isthmus of Central America.
		Himalayan Mountains are an example of a Continent-Continent convergent plate boundary where two slabs of continental crust have collided and compressing the crust and the acretionary wedge material and lifting it to form the Himalayan Mountains.
		The Black Sea is forming in the forearc region of the convergent plate boundary between the African Plate and the Eurasian Plate.
	www.eeescience.utoledo.edu /Faculty/Hayden/Courses/EngGeol/PlateTectHWKey.htm (1152 words)

	Understanding plate motions [This Dynamic Earth, USGS]
		Iceland is splitting along the spreading center between the North American and Eurasian Plates, as North America moves westward relative to Eurasia.
		As with oceanic-continental convergence, when two oceanic plates converge, one is usually subducted under the other, and in the process a trench is formed.
		The descending plate also provides a source of stress as the two plates interact, leading to frequent moderate to strong earthquakes.
	pubs.usgs.gov /gip/dynamic/understanding.html (0 words)

	Continental Drift and Tectonic Plates
		These plates (and the more numerous minor plates) move in relation to one another at one of three types of plate boundaries: convergent (two plates push against one another), divergent (two plates move away from each other), and transform (two plates slide past one another).
		Plate tectonic theory arose out of two separate geological observations: continental drift, noticed in the early 20th century, and seafloor spreading, noticed in the 1960s.
		The key principle of plate tectonics is that the lithosphere exists as separate and distinct tectonic plates, which "float" on the fluid-like asthenosphere.
	www.crystalinks.com /tectonicplates.html (1448 words)

	Foundational Concepts : Earth Processes
		Each plate is about 80 kilometers (50 miles) thick and consists of a shallow part that deforms by elastic bending or by brittle breaking and a deeper part made up of material that deforms without rupturing (plastic deformation).
		The Mid-Atlantic Ridge, the boundary between the North American and Eurasian Plates, is a spreading margin.
		Because the movement of plates correlates directly with the prevalence of geologic hazards, it is generally riskier to live near plate boundaries than on stable areas of the continents.
	www.nmnh.si.edu /paleo/geotime/main/foundation_earth2.html (1164 words)

	The Hindu : Sci Tech : Of quakes and killer waves
		These plates, each about 50 miles thick, are not anchored to a particular place; they move relative to one another at an average speed of a few inches a year.
		It is a typical convergent plate boundary where the Indian plate moving at a rate of 5 cm a year relative to the Burma plate came together, collided and the Indian plate dived (subducted) under the Burma plate.
		Scientists have shown that the Indo-Burma plate margin is a region of compression as the Australian plate is rotating counter clockwise in to the Indian plate.
	www.hindu.com /seta/2004/12/30/stories/2004123000121600.htm (1102 words)

	Plate Tectonics - Crystalinks
		Tectonic plates are comprised of two types of lithosphere: continental and oceanic lithospheres; for example, the African Plate includes the continent and parts of the floor of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.
		Where a dense oceanic plate collides with a less-dense continental plate, the oceanic plate is typically thrust underneath, forming a subduction zone.
		Tectonic plates across the globe are constantly shifting - though slowly, usually by a few centimetres a year - with the magma beneath the crust.
	www.crystalinks.com /platetectonics.html (2460 words)

	Plate Tectonics
		To understand plate tectonics we first need to understand the properties of the lithosphere, which includes the earth's crust and upper mantle.
		Located on the eastern side of the plate boundary is most of San Francisco, on the North American Plate, which is moving southeast.
		Being on opposite sides of the plate boundary, these cities are moving toward each other at a rate of 5 cm/yr.
	www.cst.cmich.edu /users/Franc1m/esc105/lectures/plate.htm (886 words)

	Plate Tectonics - Discover Our Earth
		The largest plate is the Pacific plate, followed by the African plate, Eurasian plate, Australian-Indian plate, Antarctic plate, North American plate, and South American plate.
		There are several entirely oceanic plates (Nazca, Cocos), but no entirely continental plates (with the possible exception of the Arabian peninsula; it depends on the criteria one uses to define individual plates and how much ocean is required to be considered "ocean").
		The fact that continents are included as part of plates made of both continent and ocean suggests that the continents do not move independently of the oceans as Wegener envisioned, but rather that continent and ocean move together as part of a single plate.
	atlas.geo.cornell.edu /education/instructor/tectonics/boundaries.html (490 words)

	Structure of the Earth
		The friction of the subducted slab on the overlying plate causes earthquakes.
		The Pacific Plate is being subducted beneath the Eurasian Plate
		The Indian Plate has been colliding with the Eurasian Plate for the past 40 million years and has uplifted and continues to uplift the Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau.
	www.spring.net /geo/JohnVolos/Public/Portal/EARTH_MECHAN/structure_of_the_earth.htm (361 words)

	The American Museum of Natural History - EarthBulletin - Volcanoes - Why is a volcano here?
		The Philippine Islands are all that remain of a narrow - and gradually disappearing - oceanic plate.
		This "microplate" is wedged against the Eurasian and South China Sea plates to the west.
		Meanwhile, the Philippine plate is slowly advancing from the east.
	earthbulletin.amnh.org /A/4/1 (625 words)

	Troubled Times: Eurasian Plate
		The Eurasian plate is 85% land mass with a very undefined plate boundary on its southern border connecting to the African, Indian and Australian plates.
		is located almost in the center of the plate, longitude of 59 degrees east and latitude of 64 degrees north in the Ural Mountain range.
		Because of the massive size of the Eurasian plate and the amount of people on it, I think a second location should be chosen for this plate as well.
	www.zetatalk.com /info/tinfo05s.htm (412 words)

	Geology: Plate Tectonics & Volcanoes
		The concept of plate tectonics was first described as continental drift to explain how Africa and South American drifted apart.
		In the case of Japan, the Pacific Plate and the Philippine Plate subduct the eastern border of the Eurasian Plate.
		However, the eastern edge of the Eurasian Plate is not the edge of a continent.
	www.seinan-gu.ac.jp /~djohnson/natural/geology.html (889 words)

	Consequences of Plate Tectonics (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Plate tectonics has been responsible for many of the features that we find on the surface of the Earth today.
		Plate tectonics is still an active process, and will drastically reshape the face of the Earth over the next 50 million years or so.
		As a consequence of plate tectonics (supplemented by wind and water erosion), we live on the surface of a geologically active planet that has obliterated most of its early geological history.
	csep10.phys.utk.edu /astr161/lect/earth/consequences.html (255 words)

	Major Tectonic Plates of the World
		These plates, each about 50 miles thick, move relative to one another an average of a few inches a year.
		Where an oceanic plate collides with a continental plate, the oceanic plate tips down and slides beneath the continental plate forming a deep ocean trench (long, narrow, deep basin.) An example of this type of movement, called subduction, occurs at the boundary between the oceanic Nazca Plate and the continental South American Plate.
		Plate tectonics, the branch of science that deals with the process by which rigid plates are moved across hot molten material, has helped to explain much in global-scale geology including the formation of mountains, and the distribution of earthquakes and volcanoes.
	geology.er.usgs.gov /eastern/plates.html (0 words)

	Earth
		The theory that describes this is known as plate tectonics.
		There was probably a very much larger amount of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere when the Earth was first formed, but it has since been almost all incorporated into carbonate rocks and to a lesser extent dissolved into the oceans and consumed by living plants.
		Plate tectonics and biological processes now maintain a continual flow of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to these various "sinks" and back again.
	seds.lpl.arizona.edu /nineplanets/nineplanets/earth.html (1598 words)

	Pacific Ring of Fire - Crystalinks
		The Ring of Fire is a direct consequence of plate tectonics and the movement and collisions of crustal plates.
		In Central America, the tiny Cocos plate is crashing into the North American plate and is therefore responsible for the Mexican volcanoes of Popocatepetl and Paricutun (which rose up from a cornfield in 1943 and became a instant mountains).
		From Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula to Japan, the subduction of the Pacific plate under the Eurasian plate is responsible for Japanese islands and volcanoes (such as Mt. Fuji).
	www.crystalinks.com /rof.html (580 words)

	platetec
		Some plates, such as the North American Plate and the Eurasian Plate, are moving together.
		When the currents are rising, the material comes to the Earth's surface and pushes the lithospheric plates apart where it is cooler, denser currents in the asthenosphere seem to sink and pull plates together.
		When an oceanic plate subducts underneath a continental plate, some sea floor sediments are scraped off and become part of the continent on the other side of the subduction zone.
	www.scarborough.k12.me.us /high/projects/geoscience4/platetec/platetec.htm (1177 words)

	The Different Plates (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The movement of the plates is explained by the earlier theory of Continental Drift.
		The major plates include the Eurasian plate, the African plate, the North American plate, the South American plate, the Antarctic plate, the Indoaustralian plate, the Pacific plate and the Nazca plate.
		Figure 1.10 shows the different plates on the world map, which shows that the plates are capped by both the oceanic and continental crust.
	library.thinkquest.org /17457/platetectonics/3.php (120 words)

	Himalayas - The highest mountain range on earth - North India
		Their formation is a result of a continental collision along the convergent boundary between the Indo-Australian Plate and the Eurasian Plate.
		The Indo-Australian plate continues to be driven horizontally below the Tibetan plateau, which forces the plateau to move upwards.
		The Indo-Australian plate is moving at 67 mm/year, and this leads to the Himalayas rising by about 5 mm/year.
	www.north-india.in /himalayas.htm (0 words)

	NASA Fact Sheets (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The term "plate" refers to large rigid blocks of the Earth's lithosphere, the solid outer 62 mile (100 km) crust of the Earth, that appear to move as a unit.
		Plate boundaries are marked, in fact defined, by zones of earthquake activity.
		Plate tectonic theory predicts motion in that direction of approximately 4 inches (9 cm) per year.
	www.gsfc.nasa.gov /gsfc/service/gallery/fact_sheets/earthsci/earth.htm (726 words)

	OptIPuter Outreach
		These are zones where two plates move away from each other, allowing magma from the mantle to rise up and solidify as new crust.
		Magmas that form island arcs are produced by the partial melting of the descending plate and/or theoverlying oceanic lithosphere.
		The zone between two plates sliding horizontally past one another is called a transform-fault boundary, or simply a transform boundary.
	education.sdsc.edu /optiputer/teachers/platemovement.html (958 words)

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