Tjeerd H. van Andel | Britannica

Tjeerd H. van Andel

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BIOGRAPHY

Wayne Loel Professor Emeritus of Earth Sciences, Stanford University, California. Honorary Professor of Earth History, University of Cambridge. Author of New Views on an Old Planet: Continental Drift and the History of the Earth.

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World map highlighting the major tectonic plates, each shaded in a different color, with labeled names such as Pacific Plate, North American Plate, Eurasian Plate, African Plate, South American Plate, and Indo-Australian Plate. Arrows across the map indicate the direction of movement for each plate.

plate tectonics

Plate tectonics, theory dealing with the dynamics of Earth’s outer shell—the lithosphere—that revolutionized Earth sciences by providing a uniform context for understanding mountain-building processes, volcanoes, and earthquakes as well as the evolution of Earth’s surface and reconstructing its…

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