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Digital Library for Earth System Education: Teaching Box: Plate Tectonics WebsiteDigital Library for Earth System Education: Teaching Box: Plate Tectonics Website
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Digital Library for Earth System Education: Teaching Box: Plate Tectonics

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A suite of lessons focusing on finding the fossil evidence for lithospheric plate tectonics. Inquiry-based exploration of plate tectonics evidence includes fossil distribution, earthquakes, and volcanoes.

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Concepts

magma, plate tectonics

Additional Tags

earth folding, faulting, fossil evidence, igneous intrusion, magma generation, major geological event, metamorphism, mountain building, mountain formation, ocean trench, paleoecology, plate motion, thermal energy in earth's mantle, uplifting, volcanic action, convergent boundary, divergent boundary, earthquake, transform boundary

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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