continental plate

At the end of this era, the continental plates that had developed were more or less the same we have today.

At the leading edge of a moving continental plate there will be little or no shelf.

The edge of the continental plate folds into a huge mountain range.

Granite is usually found in the continental plates of the Earth's crust.

But they can also occur in the more stable interior of continental plates.

The location had a great deal to be said for it, central, in the middle of a stable continental plate, good climate.

A craton is the oldest part of a continental plate.

New Zealand sits at the boundary between two continental plates.

But the Himalayas are the product of a collision between two continental plates.

The continental plates which powered them, however, were on a different and grander scale.

Throughout the period, southwest England in particular was affected by the collision of continental plates.

Instead, this quake was caused by two continental plates converging.

So the Mediterranean is different from those inland seas which sit on top of continental plates.

During this time, the Earth's crust cooled enough that rocks and continental plates began to form.

The island along with others was created after the breakup of the African and the American continental plates.

It was created by the collision of continental plates that formed Pangea.

The reason mountains form is usually the moving together of continental plates of the Earth's crust.

It looked to Horza rather like a pair of continental plates colliding.

This era is marked by the further development of continental plates and plate tectonics.

The layers of bedrock were built into mountains as the continental plates shifted.

Geologically the island includes parts of both continental plates.

They are large areas of flat topped rocks that have been lifted high above the crust by continental plates.

The Black Sea sits on continental plates which have subsided.

The triangular continental plate we know as the subcontinent was once part of Antarctica.

On a much longer time-scale continental plates may collide.