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EURASIAN PLATE
INDO-AUSTRALIAN PLATE
LITHOSPHERE COOLS
AS IT SPREADS
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LITHOSPHERE FORMS
FROM RISING HOT MAGMA
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,MID·OCEANIC RIDGE
RISING HOT MAGMA
THE
WORLD'S
TECTONIC
PLATES
MAJOR
EARTHQUAKE,
VOLCANIC
ANO SUBDUCTION
ZONES
Modern scientitic research
reveals the earth' s surtace
(lithosphere) is broken like a
cracked eggshell into huge
semi-rigid slabs or plates
ot
bedrock. Movements
ot
these restless, slow-moving
tectonic plates by powerful
inner earth torces explain the
earth' s c losely associated
belts
ot
major earthquake
and volcanic activity and
belts
ot
mountains.
Earthquake danger is c learly
greatest along plate edges,
but can occur anywhere.
Modern plate tectonics
make more understandable
the biblical prophecies about
great tuture earthquakes.
BASIC TECTONIC
CONCEPTS
Rising heated magma at
oceanic rifts torces major
earth plates apart, in turn
creating powertul pressures
that shift, grind, crumple and
break land masses, create
volcanic extrusions and
subduct thinner ocean plates
beneath land plates.