Tectonic Map Of North America

Tectonic Map Of North America. Schematic tectonic map of western North America illustrating the All of the plate boundaries that occur down the center of the Atlantic Ocean are divergent boundaries that follow the crest of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. The large map shows the varying age of bedrock underlying North America, while four smaller maps show the distribution of four principal types of rock: sedimentary, volcanic, plutonic and.

by United States Geological Survey (USGS); King, Philip B Paleogeography of North America - Map Projection Data

Schematic tectonic map of North America (after Hoffman, 1988, 1989b

Not all tectonic and stratigraphic features shown on a given map can be correlated to a given instant or short range of time and most maps probably range from +/- 1 or 2 million years deviation from the time shown for the map. For best results viewing and printing PDF documents, it is recommended that you download the documents to your computer and open them with Adobe Reader. The North American major plate not only contains the continent of North America but also part of the Atlantic Ocean

Plate Tectonics—The Unifying Theory of Geology Geology (U.S. National. North America: Scale: 5000000: Google Analytic Metrics: Metrics page. The Geological Society of America's (GSA) Geologic Map of North America (Reed and others, 2005a; 1:5,000,000) shows the geology of a significantly large area of the Earth, centered on North and Central America and including the submarine geology of parts of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans

Direction Of North American Plate. Regional surface processes as well as continent-scale tectonic events are exposed in the three dimensions of space and the fourth dimension, geologic time The large map shows the varying age of bedrock underlying North America, while four smaller maps show the distribution of four principal types of rock: sedimentary, volcanic, plutonic and.