Question
What do you mean by plate tectonics?
Solution
To explain the distribution of oceans and continents, in 1967, Mckenzie and Parker and also Morgan, independently collected the available ideas and came out with a concept termed as Plate Tectonics.
Plates are technical names of the rigid lithospherics slabs or rigid and solid crustal layers of the earth. Plate Tectonics is the whole mechanism of the evolution, nature and motion of plates and the resultant reactions.
According to Strahler duo, 'Moving over the weak asthenosphere, individual lithospheric plates glide slowly over the surface of the globe ; much as a pack of ice of the Arctic Ocean drifts under the dragging force of currents and winds.'
The theory that states the continents are moving as plates on a semi-liquid surface.
Plates are technical names of the rigid lithospherics slabs or rigid and solid crustal layers of the earth. Plate Tectonics is the whole mechanism of the evolution, nature and motion of plates and the resultant reactions.
According to Strahler duo, 'Moving over the weak asthenosphere, individual lithospheric plates glide slowly over the surface of the globe ; much as a pack of ice of the Arctic Ocean drifts under the dragging force of currents and winds.'
The theory that states the continents are moving as plates on a semi-liquid surface.
