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Record 1 2023-02-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plate Tectonics
  • Tectonics
CONT

Plate tectonics is the theory that unified earlier ideas of continental drift and seafloor spreading. It can be subdivided into plate kinematics, which [covers] the motion of the plates, and plate dynamics, which deals with the forces acting on the plates.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tectonique des plaques
  • Tectonique
CONT

La cinématique des plaques est l'étude des mouvements passés et actuels des plaques tectoniques qui constituent l'enveloppe la plus superficielle de la terre solide appelée lithosphère.

Spanish

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