Essays on Plate Tectonics

The Evolution of Plate Tectonics in Europe Plate tectonics is the theory that Earth’s strong outer layer, the lithosphere, is divided into several plates that glide over the mantle. Basically, scientists believe that convection, due to the heating of the magma in the mantle, is…

Plate Tectonics Predicting the Past Plate tectonics is a relatively new concept, being introduced by Alfred Wegener in his 1915 publication of Origins of the Continents and Oceans, through his theory of continental drifts and not publicly accepted by the scientific world until the 1960s…

Uneven distribution of mineral deposits through space and time reflect trends in plate tectonic settings, changes in global heat flow and the evolution of the earth in terms of hydrosphere-atmosphere (Barley & Groves, 1992; Cawood & Hawkesworth, 2015; Groves, Condie, Goldfarb, Hronsky, & Vielreicher, 2005)…..