Look at the map of plate boundaries. follow a convergent boundary from one end to the other. Do the same for a divergent boundary. Do all of the convergent and divergent boundaries connect to each other seamlessly? Do the plate boundaries end abruptly and disappear? Eurasian plateJuan de FucaplateNorthAmericanplateCaribbeanplateArabianSplate IndianPhilippineSeaCocosplateplateAfricanplate ePacific plateSouthAmericanNazcaplateplateAustralian plateScoția platew EAntarctic plate- Convergentboundary- DivergentboundaryPlate boundary- Transformboundary- VelocitySource Kreemer et al, 2014WEUS O 9 0 2:00DELL24&68.km

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Look at the map of plate boundaries. follow a convergent boundary from one end to the other. Do the same for a divergent boundary. Do all of the convergent and divergent boundaries connect to each other seamlessly? Do the plate boundaries end abruptly and disappear?

Eurasian plate
Juan de Fuca
plate
North
American
plate
Caribbean
plate
Arabian
Splate Indian
Philippine
Sea
Cocos
plate
plate
African
plate e
Pacific plate
South
American
Nazca
plate
plate
Australian plate
Scoția plate
w E
Antarctic plate
- Convergent
boundary
- Divergent
boundary
Plate boundary
- Transform
boundary
- Velocity
Source Kreemer et al, 2014
WE
US O 9 0 2:00
DELL
24
&
6
8.
k
m

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Introduction

The tectonic plates are large rigid slabs of a certain thickness found in the lithosphere layer. The tectonic plates carry both the continental and the oceanic crust. The mantle convection from the bottom sets up the tectonic plates in the lithosphere to move around. There are different boundaries based on tectonism- divergent, convergent, and transform fault boundaries.