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Juan de Fuca Plate
Pacific Plate
San Andreas Fault
North American Plate
Iceland
Red Sea African Plate
East African Rift Valley
Eurasian Plate
Himalayas
Arabian Plate
Marianas Trench
Philippine
Mid-Atlantic ridge
Caribbean Plate
Plate
Indo-Australian Plate
Pacific Plate
Peru-Chile Trench
Andes
South American Plate
Nazca Plate
East Pacific Rise
Antarctic Plate
Constructive plate edges (oceanic ridges) Fold mountain range Destructive plate edges (subduction zones or continental collision zones) Direction of plate movement
Spreading boundary
 A map of the main tectonic plates identified by the locations of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
geosyncline A large downward sag or trench that forms in the Earth’s crust as a result of colliding tectonic plates.
Direction of movement of spreading plate
Geosyncline
Direction of flow of convection current
Oceanic ridge
Rising magma
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