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Chapter v. The WPS Office
Chapter v. The WPS Office
Laurasia
is a large supercontinent that existed in northern
hemisphere before it began to break up 200 million years
ago, consisting of the modern day continents of North
America, Europe, and Asia.
The Sea-Floor Spreading
Hypothesis
Plate Tectonics
Convergent boundary
— at this type of
boundary two plates are moving
towards one another.
Divergent boundary
— is a site where two
plates are moving away from one
another.
Transform boundary
— Here, two plates
are sliding past one another.
a hypothetical earthquake at the north pole are
refracted at the core mantle boundary and shadow
P-waves zones created.