South Pacific plate tectonics (IMAGE)

University of Texas at Austin

South Pacific plate tectonics

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The edges of Earth’s bumping and diving tectonic plates, centered over the Pacific Ocean. The colors indicate whether the plates are scraping past (yellow), diving under (green), or pulling away (red) from one another. The study site marks the location of the newly forming subduction zone.

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Brandon Shuck/University of Texas Institute for Geophysics

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