Description
Plate Tectonics from Space map poster – delivered folded only
Equatorial scale: 1:50,000,000 – For the North and South Poles: polar stereographic projection.
Satellite measurements of the movement of the lithospheric plates that carve up the Earth’s surface have made rapid progress in recent years. Spectacular images of the horizontal deformation of the Earth’s crust are pouring in at a rapid pace, solving some of the enigmas of plate kinematics locally, and raising new questions elsewhere.
The aim of this map is to show the current framework of plate tectonics in the light of these new satellite measurements, superimposed on a physiographic background also derived from space techniques. Read more at CCGM…
© CCGM 2006 – resold with permission
Authors :
N. Chamot-Rooke (CNRS – Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris)
A. Rabaute (GeoSubSight – Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris)
