A 3D block diagram across North America showing a mantle tomography image reveals the Slab Unfolding method used to flatten the Farallon tectonic plate. By doing this, Fuston and Wu were able to ...

The Earth is made up of different layers: Therefore, instead of tectonic plates moving because of the convection currents, evidence suggests it is the plates that drive the convection. Slab pull ...

From the deepest ocean trench to the tallest mountain, plate tectonics explains the features and movement of Earth's surface in the present and the past. The theory of plate tectonics was ...

Alternatively, as shown in the diagram, convection currents ... and the activity inside the Earth, is described as the theory of plate tectonics.

Different plate tectonic settings produce distinctive basin environments where sedimentary ... and then are deposited on the continental rise and abyssal plain as the turbidity current loses energy.