TECTONIC PLATES

CURRENT KNOWLEDGE

Scientists have found evidence of plate tectonics on Jupiter's moon Europa. A low-relief subsumption band was created at the surface in the overriding plate, alongside which cryolavas may have erupted.

The elements have been reported in nature that the tectonic plates intertwined with the areas of the crust that float in the upper viscous mantle of the Earth that is created by a process similar to the subduction that is currently observed when a plate is submerged under another.

Starting about 4,000 million years ago, some parts of the earth's crust were pushed down weakening the surrounding crust and then the weak areas formed the boundaries of the plates.

Researchers at the University of Houston, John Suppe
, Jonny Wu and Yi-Wei Chen have reconstructed the ancient plates beneath the Andes mountains.
The Andes mountains are the longest continuous mountain range in the world, with an extension of about 7,000 kilometers, or 4,300 miles, along the western coast of South America.

HISTORICAL BASES

Plate tectonics is a geological theory that explains the way in which the lithosphere is structured.

The most important scientists and related to this technique and theory are:

Frank Bursley Taylor was an American geologist. One of his great ideas was to think that if the continents moved ; Hapgood north American researcher proposed a hypothetical scenery of displacement of the earth's crust ; Alfred Lothar Wegener was a German meteorologist and geophysicist, one of the great fathers of modern geology when proposing the theory of continental drift ; Arthur Holmes was a geologist who made two great contributions to the understanding of geology ; Harry Hammond Hess he was an American geologist, an officer of the United States Navy from the Second World War ; Bernard Brunhes he was a French geophysicist known for his pioneering work in paleomagnetism ; Drummond Matthews he was a marine geologist and British geophysicist whose contributions were key to the theory of tectonic plates and Frederick John Vine is a marine geologist and geophysicist, one of the main contributors to the theory of tectonic plates.