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$World map showing the present-day configuration of continents and major lithospheric plates, highlighting tectonic features such as young orogenic belts in brown, fracture zones and transform faults as dashed lines, actively spreading oceanic ridges as heavy lines, active oceanic trenches with arrows indicating direction of subduction, and locations of active or recently extinct volcanoes marked with triangles.$

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