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The Plate Tectonics Theory is one of the most important theories in the history of Earth science because it gives reasoning to what causes earthquakes, volcanoes, and the ever-changing surface of our planet! Innovative technology in the 1950s allowed scientists to use sonar (sound waves) to capture an image of the bottom of the ocean.Before this technology, most people assumed that the bottom of the ocean was completely flat and smooth, much like the bottom of a swimming pool. Once scientists were able to see what it really was like, there were astonished! They saw mountains, valleys, ridges, trenches, and volcanoes, all underneath the water!

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Application of the Plate Tectonics Theory

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Application of the Plate Tectonics Theory

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Plate tectonics theory dealing with the dynamics of Earth’s outer shell, the lithosphere that revolutionized Earth sciences by providing a uniform context for understanding mountain-building processes, volcanoes, and earthquakes as well as the evolution of Earth’s surface and reconstructing its past continents and oceans.

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In the movement of the plates we can consider 3 fundamental cased:
1) Plates sliding side by side (Transform Margins)
2) Plates distancing (Divergent Margins)
3) Plates approaching (Convergent Margins)

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According to many scientist at the origin of the Earth was an only continent (PANGEA) surrounded by an only ocean (PANTHALASSA).
From the dismemberment of the Pangea originated from present continents and the Earth was divided at about fifteen plates.

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The crash between the plates generates tectonic earthquakes. They are the most common types of earthquakes and occur at the margin of the plate tectonics, where the energy cause which are released during the earthquake and where happen the side scrool or the crossing the plates.

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The Earth is divided in some plate tectonics.
This theory is accredited from lots of scientist and geologist.