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...500px|Colors indicate age of oceanic lithosphere, lines represent tectonic plates, world map. By NOAA.]]

...e can move back in time and map the basin at critical periods in its plate tectonic development. Maps should show features such as [[spreading center]]s, [[Con ...lf Coast Geology: New Orleans Geological Society, p. 1–16.</ref> The basic tectonic architecture developed as a consequence of the Jurassic breakup of Pangea (

[[file:Tectonic_Plates.jpg|thumb|300px|Global map of tectonic plates. [http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/historical.html#anchor9449934 USGS].]] [http://www.platetectonics.com/ Plate tectonic] studies provide the following kinds of information:

[[File:Updated lwandle4.jpg|thumbnail|400px|right|Lwandle and its neighboring plates are shown. This figure is simplified, modified from Stamps et al.<ref name= ...sharing a boundary with the Nubia, Somali and [[Antarctic plate|Antarctic Plates]].<ref name=Demetsetal>DeMets, C., R. Gordon, and D. Argus, 2010, Geologica

...rth’s crust, to large collisions of the crust’s [[tectonic plate]]s. These tectonic forces are usually compressions within the earth crust and vary in magnitud

...ectonics regards the lithosphere broken into plate that are in motion. The plates move relative to another along plate boundaries, sliding upon the underlyin ==List of Tectonic Plates==

The direction of strike indicate the direction of main force of plat tectonic in there regional. It can be determined with rosette diagram. Indonesia is a country located between three major plates, there are Eurasian Plate, Indo-Australia Plate and Pacific Plate. Eurasian

...l /> A critical element of the plate tectonic system is these lithospheric plates become negatively buoyant at some point in their evolution, sinking into th ...1997, Mantle convection with a brittle lithosphere: thoughts on the global tectonic styles of the Earth and Venus, Geophysical Journal International, vol. 133,

* Locating structures under thrust plates or volcanics * Mapping large tectonic features

...ution of the heat inside the Earth is what causes the movement of tectonic plates and all of endogenous phenomena ([[:File:Distribution of surface heat flow ...ity. They are related to extremely high gradients, corresponding to global tectonic process. They occur in plate borders, cortical thin areas or hot spots. The

* Trap genesis in terms of structural process and/or [[Tectonic setting|tectonic context]] ...l.aspx?id=477 AAPG Studies in Geology series 15], vol. 1, p. 1–24. ''Plate tectonic studies.''</ref> lists the characteristics of the primary structural styles

...regional geology, including similar [[paleogeography|paleogeographic]], [[tectonic]], stratigraphic and depositional settings which, in turn, led to the devel ...htm The evolution of the Tethys region throughout the Phanerozoic: A brief tectonic reconstruction], ''in'' L. Marlow, C. Kendall, and L. Yose, eds., Petroleum

...ned as a molten rock, which behaves as a viscous liquid generated multiple tectonic processes. The ascent to the fragile [[crust]] generates bodies of varying * Tectonic: the dynamics of plates associated sedimentary basin must have significant magmatic activity, with

...extensional faults that initiate and evolve at the margins of continental plates. They extend parallel to passive margins that have high sediment supply. Th ...h faults are located mainly within passive margin sedimentary wedges where tectonic forces have minimum or no effect. These passive margins receive millions of

...is a very controversial unit because all the contacts with other units are tectonic.

...S. F. Barrett, 1990, Geological evolution of the Caribbean region, a plate-tectonic perspective, ''in'' The geology of North America, v. H: The Caribbean regio Some tectonic activity extended into the [[Neocomian]] (132 Ma), possibly associated with

[[file:M106Ch13Fig01.jpg|thumb|300px|{{figure number|1}}Tectonic map showing the continental fragments involved in the evolution of Turkey a Şengör, A. M. C. and Y. Yilmaz, 1981, Tethyan evolution of Turkey, A plate tectonic approach: Tectonophysics, v. 75, p. 181–241.</ref>). 300 km (186.4 mi).]]

...r = The evolution of the Tethys region throughout the Phanerozoic: A brief tectonic reconstruction ...the breakup of Rodinia and by the re-arrangement of the major continental plates in the [[Pangea]] supercontinent. During the assemblage of Pangea, a major

Subduction zone is one of the most critical tectonic phenomena on Earth. Its correlation to the formation of volcanic arc, deep Principally, subduction zone is the area of the Earth where two plates colliding and the one sinking inside the Earth. The primary cause of subduc

...Other figures are included to provide the basin framework during the ages, tectonic framework, and stratigraphy presented. ...history, it had a much different basin architecture controlled by a varied tectonic development, sedimentary processes, stratigraphic events, and many other co