World Tectonic Plate Movement Map

These features largely reflect the movements of earth's major tectonic plates and many smaller plates or fragments of plates (including microplates). There are four types of boundaries between tectonic plates that are defined by the movement of the plates: Plate tectonics (from the late latin:

Dynamic movement in the mantle, dense oceanic crust interacting with the ductile asthenosphere, even the rotation of the planet. There are four types of boundaries between tectonic plates that are defined by the movement of the plates: The sequence of maps on this page shows how a large supercontinent known as pangaea was fragmented into several pieces, each being part of a mobile plate of the lithosphere.

These plates creep along at a rate of approximately five to.

Plate tectonics is driven by a variety of forces: The model builds on the concept of continental drift, an idea developed. Generally, the depth of an earthquake is related to the type of tectonic boundary in which it occurs. A map showing some of the world's major and minor tectonic plates.