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Relatively stable localities that occur in places where the continental crust and bordering ocean crust are actually on the same tectonic plate.
Lithospheric plates moving away from each other. Results in the rifting of Earth’s plates.
Places where plates slide horizontally past each other. The San Andreas Fault and Dead Sea Fault are excellent examples of this.
Places where plates collide directly into one another.
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Relatively stable localities that occur in places where the continental crust and bordering ocean crust are actually on the same tectonic plate.
Lithospheric plates moving away from each other. Results in the rifting of Earth’s plates.
Places where plates slide horizontally past each other. The San Andreas Fault and Dead Sea Fault are excellent examples of this.
Places where plates collide directly into one another.
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Relatively stable localities that occur in places where the continental crust and bordering ocean crust are actually on the same tectonic plate.
Lithospheric plates moving away from each other. Results in the rifting of Earth’s plates.
Places where plates slide horizontally past each other. The San Andreas Fault and Dead Sea Fault are excellent examples of this.
Places where plates collide directly into one another.
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