EARTH SCIENCE
TECTONICS
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helps explain why mountain ranges exist
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helps scientists to better understand fossil distribution
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helps locate areas with higher potentials for earthquakes
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helps explain the presence of coal in non-tropical regions
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Detailed explanation-1: -The theory of plate tectonics revolutionized the earth sciences by explaining how the movement of geologic plates causes mountain building, volcanoes, and earthquakes.
Detailed explanation-2: -Earthquakes occur along fault lines, cracks in Earth’s crust where tectonic plates meet. They occur where plates are subducting, spreading, slipping, or colliding. As the plates grind together, they get stuck and pressure builds up. Finally, the pressure between the plates is so great that they break loose.
Detailed explanation-3: -Plate tectonic theory 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 past continents and oceans.
Detailed explanation-4: -The distribution of fossils is used as evidence for plate tectonics.