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	Nova Scotia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nova Scotia was granted a supreme court in 1754 with the appointment of Jonathan Belcher and a Legislative Assembly in 1758.
		Nova Scotia is the seventh most populated province in Canada with an estimated 938,116 residents as of October 1, 2005.
		Of the 4.6% of Nova Scotia residents who had immigrated to Canada, 45% per cent of immigrants were from Asia; 29.3% were from Europe (excluding the United Kingdom); 21.9%, the Middle East; 11.8%, the United States; and 6.8%, the United Kingdom.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nova_Scotia (2073 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).
		The key principle of plate tectonics is that the lithosphere exists as separate and distinct tectonic plates, which "float" on the fluid-like asthenosphere.
		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.
	www.crystalinks.com /tectonicplates.html (1448 words)

	Seismotectonics and relative plate motions in the Scotia Sea region
		Seismotectonics and relative plate motions in the Scotia Sea region
		The magnitude and depth of normal faulting earthquakes along Bransfield Strait and the South Scotia Ridge are suggestive of diffuse extension rather than typical organized mid-ocean spreading, which is generally associated with smaller and shallower earthquakes.
		Citation: Pelayo, A., and D. Wiens (1989), Seismotectonics and relative plate motions in the Scotia Sea region, J.
	www.agu.org /pubs/crossref/1989/88JB04217.shtml (391 words)

	What is Plate Tectonics?
		Plate tectonics is the study of how the Earth’s plates are driven and shaped by geological forces that keep them in constant motion.
		Plate boundaries might also move laterally past one another, as in the case of the Pacific and North American plates.
		This plate moves northwesterly at a rate of about 2 inches (5 cm) per year, while the North American plate on the opposite side of the San Andreas fault is moving in a southerly direction.
	www.wisegeek.com /what-is-plate-tectonics.htm (719 words)

	Geology: Plate Tectonics
		Continetal plate is thick and composed of sediments and volcanic rocks, oceanic crust is thinner and consist only of a certain kind of volcanic rocks.
		Plate Tectonics, the Cause of Earthquakes, explains the connection between plate tectonics and earthquakes.
		Plate Tectonics, as the domain name suggests, this is a very informative site about all aspects of plate tectonics.
	www.showcaves.com /english/explain/Geology/PlateTectonics.html (1126 words)

	Nova Scotia
		These plates were first issued at the end of 1968 and were valid without stickers through the end of 1969.
		Although all Nova Scotia plates of this era expired in December, the month of expiration was still printed on the sticker.
		Nova Scotia is now the only jurisdiction still using these dies, as all other Waldale plates have switched to a new set first introduced on Manitoba plates in 1997.
	www.15q.net /ns.html (603 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 (1171 words)

	7b
		The lithospheric study performed using seismological methodologies, and the identification of the main lateral discontinuities in the Antarctic continent and surrounding regions is essential to the understanding of the geodynamic development of the region.
		The study of the lithosphere and the identification of relevant lateral discontinuities in the Antarctic continent and in the surrounding areas is essential to the understating of the geodinamic evolution of the cratonized continent and of the surrounding oceans.
		The Scotia arc is formed by a group of submarine ridges and volcanic islands (South Sandwich Is.), closed to the East, which connects the southernmost South America to the Antarctic Peninsula.
	www.dst.univ.trieste.it /Seismology/Projects/pnra.html (2493 words)

	Struc (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		They are orientated parallel to the boundary between the South American and Scotia plates, and are probably reactivated older, possibly basement controlled faults that have been rejuvenated by the continued NE- directed thrusting and sinistral strike-slip motion along the plate boundary.
		The plate boundary fault appears to have a more or less normal fault geometry in many places, with deep basins to the north and shallower basins or basement (Burdwood Bank) to the south.
		To the south it is constrained by the South American-Scotia plate boundary.
	www.bgs.ac.uk /falklands-oil/SFB/struc.HTM (1284 words)

	Syllabus: Ocean 10 - Lecture: Plate Tec.
		Plate Tectonic theory, formalized in the 1960's by J. Tuzo Wilson, explains the past and present configurations of the continents and the basins.
		Plate Tectonics states that the outer layer of the Earth is made up of many plates of both oceanic and continental crust that move about the surface crashing into and sliding past one another.
		Plate tectonics is driven primarily by convective forces within the mantle.
	online.redwoods.cc.ca.us /instruct/rshapiro/ocean10/lectures/plate.htm (1115 words)

	Geological Society - Group Details - Caribbean Conundrum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Caribbean Plate is thought to have become thickened as it passed over one or two hotspots (Sala y Gomez, Galapagos) and/or mantle plumes.
		Scotia and Banda are known to have formed in place.
		Analogy with the Scotia Plate suggests that the Beata Ridge was a spreading centre and that continental fragments lie beneath the Greater Antilles and Costa Rica.
	www.geolsoc.org.uk /template.cfm?name=Caribbean (1675 words)

	Atlantic Climate Centre - The Climate of Nova Scotia
		Nova Scotia's north coast is exposed to Gulf waters which, in late August, have a maximum surface temperature of 18C.
		Nova Scotia is wettest over the highlands of Cape Breton Island, where over 1600 mm of precipitation fall in an average year.
		Nova Scotia's most persistent spell of fog occurred during Canada's centennial in 1967 at Yarmouth, when over the 92 days of summer, 85 had an occurrence of 1 or more hours with fog.
	atlantic-web1.ns.ec.gc.ca /climatecentre?lang=En&n=61405176-1 (2018 words)

	THE MYSTERY READER reviews: The Lavender Butterfly Murders by Sharon Duncan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Even with her plate full, Scotia decides seven days at a new spa on the nearby, yet remote, Santa Maria Island may be just what she needs.
		Upon arrival at the converted convent, Scotia encounters more group activities and sharing than she was hoping for, and judging from the dynamics of the group, many of them are not happy to be stranded with limited means of communication and a group of angry islanders.
		Retreat owner Mimi St. Clair confesses to Scotia that she was met with a lot of resistance from the eighty or so locals when she first proposed the spa.
	www.themysteryreader.com /duncan-lavendar.html (490 words)

	Collectible and Antique Collector Plates on CYBERATTIC.
		Display plate, 9 1/2 in., decorated with Eta Sigma Alpha insignia in color, and gold trim on the gadroon rim, c.
		Plate is numbered and in excellent condition with original box and certificate.
		The center of the plate is decorated with a transfer pattern of the elegant SCROLL-ARCHED CALECHE COACH.
	www.cyberattic.com /directory/Collector_Plates20.html (868 words)

	ATMOS 211
		Plate tectonics (plate structure) is a coherent theory of massive crustal rearrangement based on the movement of continent-sized lithospheric plates, developed in the 1960's.
		In convergence, plates moving in opposite directions meet, and the result of the collision normally is a vast crumpling of the edges as one plate subducts under the other.
		Plate tectonics is the theory that the Earth is made up of thin, rigid plates that move relative to each other.
	www.atmos.washington.edu /2001Q1/211/Group_projects/group_B_F00 (1861 words)

	Plate Tectonics
		Plate tectonics is the all-encompassing theory that allows us to understand the present configuration of the surface of the Earth, to recreate the past positions of the continents and ocean basins, and to make predictions about the future.
		The angle of subduction is related to the age of the plate; the older the subducting plate, the steeper the angle.
		This is primarily a function of equal density of the plates; however, it also occurs due to the direction of movement.
	www.coloradocollege.edu /Dept/GY/rweb/plates.html (1473 words)

	Amateur Geologist Structured Geological Glossary: Plate Tectonics
		The arc forms where the downgoing descending plate becomes hot enough to release water and gases that rise into the overlying mantle and cause it to melt.
		A point that is common to three plate and which must also be the meeting place of three boundary features, such as divergence zones, convergence zones, or transform fault.
		Small crustal fragments, island arc, or seamount which are transported by the moving oceanic plate and are added to a continental mass at the subduction zone.
	www.amateurgeologist.com /content/glossary/tectonics/tectonics.html (1219 words)

	Locating Different Plates
		According to the theory of plate tectonics, the Earth's crust and upper mantle are broken into moving plates of "lithosphere." The Earth has two types of crust.
		Because the plates are rigid, they tend to stick together, even though they are constantly moving.
		When the strength of the rocks at the plate boundary is exceeded, they move rapidly, "catching up" with the rest of the plates.
	www.msnucleus.org /membership/html/k-6/pt/plate/6/ptpt6_1a.html (528 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The motion of South America with respect to Antarctica is latitudinal and left-lateral at approximately 22 mm per year and is distributed along the boundaries of the intervening Scotia plate.
		The D-shaped Sandwich plate and arc appear to be moving rapidly east with respect to both South America and Antarctica, thereby for the first time introducing a subduction system into the otherwise rift-bounded South Atlantic Ocean basin.
		The Scotia arc is nonetheless one of the most poorly constrained of the major tectonic systems on Earth, yet it is a critical and enigmatic link in global plate-motion circuits.
	www.cs.utexas.edu /users/yguan/NSFAbstracts/Abstracts/O_D/OPP.O_D.a9530383.txt (675 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Scotia Sea is bounded by the extended loop of the South Sandwich island-arc and represents a complex zone of microplates at the boundary of the South American and Antarctic plates.
		The so-called East Scotia Ridge back-arc spreading centre consists of nine main segments and is spreading at an intermediate rate of 65-70 mm/a.
		The aim of the present study is primarily to describe the chemical variations along the East Scotia Ridge and to interpret these in terms of petrogenetic processes, in particular fractional crystallization, partial melting, magma mixing, and the contribution from the subduction zone.
	www.gpi.uni-kiel.de /Allgemeine/Marine_Geochemie/Sandwich.html (414 words)

	South Atlantic Tectonics: Winter Quarter, 2001
		The complex basement geometry is attributed to the triple-junction tectonics when the African, S. American and Antartic plates separated in the Late Jurassic - the FP is estimated to have elongated 400km in an E-W direction before the onset of drift - {see normal faulting in Fig 7}.
		Earthquake studies have shown that some of the E-W relative motion between the Antarctic and South American plates is acommodated by strike-slip motion on the North Scotia ridge.
		The Scotia plate shallower (1 km depth) than the South American plate (2-3 km).
	www.gps.caltech.edu /~clay/reading_group5.html (2213 words)

	Antartic Plate Adjustments on August 5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Look at the Volcano Live site where in the first paragraph it describes that the Scotia earthquakes are moving the plates West/NorthWest with respect to the Antarctic Plate, which you have explained is expected to be happening.
		The August 4, 2003, Scotia Sea earthquake occurred on the boundary between the Scotia plate and the Antarctic plate.
		In the epicentral region, the Scotia Sea plate is moving to the west-northwest with respect to the Antarctic plate.
	www.zetatalk.com /index/antartic.htm (233 words)

	History of Nova Scotia License Plates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The plates were owner-provided and bore the initials NS after the registration number.
		Believe it or not, Nova Scotia motorists were required to drive on the left side of the road until April 15th 1923.
		The plates issued from 1972 to 1979 were valid until 1986 as the new alpha numeric plates were phased in.
	www.canplates.com /ns.html (536 words)

	Keith Klepeis's Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The evolution of the lower crust and shear zone development during changes in plate boundary conditions and exhumation from lower to upper crustal levels.
		Plate boundary processes and orogenesis in the southernmost Andes.
		Response of a transform plate boundary and FFT triple junction to plate reorganization.
	www.uvm.edu /~kklepeis/people/klepeis/kklepeis.html (1451 words)

	New Brunswick
		The initial run of 1987-base plates (AAA through about ARZ serials) was made on a stock of steel that was very susceptible to rusting, so in 1989 the material was changed to galvanized steel.
		Once the end of the "ASR" series of plates was run at Waldale, Ltd.'s Nova Scotia plate manufacturing facility, the series turned over to the obviously unusable "ASS" series and all 900 sets of plates in the series were made.
		These plates were obviously never issued and were sold for scrap, but as often happens some of them instead migrated to the collector's market.
	www.15q.net /nb.html (956 words)

	Geodetic determination of relative plate motion and crustal deformation across the Scotia-South America plate boundary ...
		The subaerial section of the plate boundary in Tierra del Fuego, about 160 km in length, is modeled as a two dimensional, strike-slip plate boundary with east-west strike.
		Along the Magallanes-Fagnano fault system, the principal fault of this portion of the plate boundary, relative plate motion is left-lateral strike-slip on a vertical fault at 6.6 ± 1.3 mm/year based on an assumed locking depth of 15 km.
		The site velocities on the Scotia Plate side are faster than the relative velocity by an additional 1–2 mm/yr, suggesting there may be a wider region of diffuse left-lateral deformation in southern Patagonia.
	www.agu.org /pubs/crossref/2003/2002GC000446.shtml (449 words)

	License to Play - Nova Scotia Community License Plates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		These license plates will be sold by athletes as fundraisers for their sports teams.
		The high quality aluminum plates are made in Nova Scotia by one of the largest and most technically advanced manufacturers in North America.
		The cost per plate is $25.00 (with HST) and $8.00 from every sale goes to the sports team that sold it.
	www.licensetoplay.ca /about.html (619 words)

	AAGG (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Andes are the result of compression of the western plate boundary of South America.
		The geodetic network include a number of continuous GPS station plus 250 new benchmarks in Argentina and Chile (in addition to their scientific use, the stations are the core of new, national, space geodesy based geodetic networks in Argentina and Chile).
		This is also seen in the shallow, upper plate seismicity, where two bands of seismicity are observed, one along the very active western plate boundary and a less active one along the easternmost side of the Andes, with a quiet region in between.
	www.aagg.org.ar /bob.htm (415 words)

	South Sandwich Islands, southern Atlantic Ocean
		The South Sandwich Islands are a volcanic island arc caused by the subduction of the South Sandwich plate beneath the South American plate.
		The South Sandwich plate is one of the smallest geologic plates and is created at the South Sandwich spreading center.
		This small plate is less than 8 million years old and moves to the east at about 7 cm per year.
	volcano.und.nodak.edu /vwdocs/volc_images/south_america/south_sandwich_islands.html (417 words)

	Shackleton Fracture Zone: No barrier to early circumpolar ocean circulation -- Livermore et al. 32 (9): 797 -- Geology
		West Scotia Ridge (Livermore et al., 1994) to the northeast.
		Large arrows at West Scotia Ridge axis indicate direction of spreading before (fl) and during (white) final, oblique, phase of spreading between 8 and 6.5 Ma.
		Pelayo, A.M., and Wiens, D.A., 1989, Seismotectonics and relative plate motions in the Scotia Sea region: Journal of Geophysical Research–Solid Earth and Planets, v.
	geology.geoscienceworld.org /cgi/content/full/32/9/797 (3135 words)

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