tectonics meaning in late latin is

tectonicus which means Building

a theory that explains the structure of the
Earths crust
Plate tectonics is the theory that Earth's
outer shell is divided into several plates
that glide over the mantle, the rocky
inner layer above the core
 A German polar
researcher amply
described the
continental drift
theory
 Pacific Plate
North American Plate
Eurasian Plate
African Plate
Antartic Plate
Indo-Australian Plate
South American plate
 Somali Plate
Nazca Plate
Philippine sea Plate
Arabian Plate
Carribean Plate
Cocos Plate
Caroline Plate
Scotia Plate
Burma Plate
New Herbrides plate
 The driving force behind plate
tectonics is convection in the mantle. ...
Hot magma wells up at the ridges,
forming new ocean crust and shoving
the plates apart. At subduction zones,
two tectonic plates meet and one slides
beneath the other back into the mantle,
the layer underneath the crust
 The main features of plate tectonics are:
The Earth's surface is covered by a series
of crustal plates. The ocean floors are
continually moving, spreading from the
center, sinking at the edges, and being
regenerated. Convection currents
beneath the plates move the
crustal plates in different directions.
 Causes. An earthquake is the shaking
and vibration of the Earth's crust due to
movement of the
Earth's plates (plate tectonics). Earthqua
kes can happen along any type of plate
boundary. Earthquakes occur when
tension is released from inside the crust.