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The 195 pages that link to Plate tectonics, each with the reason it gives.

• Iapetus OceanNarrower topic: Plate motions opened the ocean and later brought its surrounding continents together.

• Oceanic islandNarrower topic: Plate movement determines where oceanic crust forms and where island-building volcanism occurs.

• Rock cycleNarrower topic: Plate motion supplies burial, uplift, heat, and melting that drive many cycle pathways.

• Supercontinent cycleNarrower topic: The 1960s plate framework made a recurring assembly–breakup rhythm physically thinkable.

• Caledonian orogenyNarrower topic: Converging plates provide the framework for explaining the belt's formation.

• Harry HessNarrower topic: Seafloor spreading became a central process in the theory that unified Hess’s proposal with global geology.

• Himalayan orogenyNarrower topic: It explains the plate motions that bring India into collision with Eurasia.

• Strike-slip faultNarrower topic: Many major strike-slip faults accommodate motion between tectonic plates.

• Antarctic PlateNarrower topic: The Antarctic Plate is one moving unit within this global system.

• Dead Sea TransformNarrower topic: The transform is a plate boundary whose motion is part of global plate tectonics.

• Farallon PlateNarrower topic: The Farallon Plate's history is reconstructed through the motions and interactions of neighboring plates.

• Juan de Fuca PlateNarrower topic: The plate's creation, motion, and subduction are examples of this global system.

• Arthur HolmesNarrower topic: It later incorporated mantle dynamics into a comprehensive theory of moving plates.

• North American CordilleraNarrower topic: It provides the broad framework for explaining Cordilleran mountain building.

• Slab pullNarrower topic: The framework in which slab pull emerged as the leading driving-force hypothesis.

• Slow slip eventNarrower topic: Slow slip is one way motion between tectonic plates is accommodated.

• Accretionary wedgeNarrower topic: Plate motion provides the large-scale setting for wedge formation.

• AmericasNarrower topic: Plate motion accounts for the Americas’ continental assembly and ongoing geological change.

• Andean orogenyNarrower topic: The orogen is a continental-scale result of converging lithospheric plates.

• AvaloniaNarrower topic: Its motions account for Avalonia’s separation, drift, and eventual collisions.

• Ocean drillingNarrower topic: Ocean-floor age patterns from drilling became key evidence for the theory.

• Passive marginNarrower topic: A margin is passive precisely because it is not a plate boundary.

• Deep Sea Drilling ProjectNarrower topic: The project’s age results provided evidence for a central mechanism within this theory.

• Earth's crustNarrower topic: Its plate motions explain how crust forms, deforms, and moves across the planet.

• Alleghanian orogenyNarrower topic: Plate convergence explains the continental collision that drove this event.

• Anatolian PlateNarrower topic: The Anatolian Plate’s motion is one expression of global lithospheric movement.

• Azores Triple JunctionNarrower topic: The junction’s existence and motion follow from interactions among three lithospheric plates.

• J. Tuzo WilsonNarrower topic: Wilson’s hotspot proposal became part of the broader plate-tectonic framework.

• Macquarie IslandNarrower topic: Relative plate motion explains the ridge, earthquakes, and unusual exposed rocks.

• Marine geologyNarrower topic: It provides the framework for interpreting ocean-basin formation and motion.

• PannotiaNarrower topic: Continental drift and collision underlie every reconstruction of Pannotia.

• Economic geologyNarrower topic: Plate boundaries drive many processes that form and modify mineral deposits.

• Fennoscandian ShieldNarrower topic: Ancient plate collisions and accretion built much of the shield’s crust.

• LaurussiaNarrower topic: The motion of plates brought Laurentia and Baltica into collision.

• Mountain rangeNarrower topic: Converging and colliding plates build many of the world's major ranges.

• Rheic OceanNarrower topic: Plate motion accounts for the ocean's opening, migration of terranes, and eventual closure.

• Ring of FireNarrower topic: Before 1967 the ring was a pattern without a cause; plate tectonics explained why the rim burns.

• Somali PlateNarrower topic: Plate-tectonic models explain the Somali Plate's motion and separation from Nubia.

• Southeast Indian RidgeNarrower topic: The ridge is a divergent boundary within the global plate-tectonic system.

• Columbia (supercontinent)Narrower topic: It supplies the framework for interpreting Columbia's collisions, sutures, and dispersal.

• Japanese island arcNarrower topic: Japan’s arc depends on how plate boundaries and motions are defined across the western Pacific.

• NothofagaceaeNarrower topic: Continental movement provides the geological framework for interpreting southern beech distributions.

• KenorlandNarrower topic: It provides the broad tectonic framework for interpreting Kenorland’s assembly and dispersal.

• MesosaurusNarrower topic: Modern plate tectonics explains the continental separation that Mesosaurus distribution helped document.

• ContinentsNarrower topic: It explains the long-term motion and reassembly of continental landmasses.

• John Tuzo WilsonNarrower topic: Wilson helped establish this framework by showing how faults and volcanic chains record plate motion.

• Pacific–Antarctic RidgeNarrower topic: This ridge is direct evidence of the theory's seafloor-spreading process.

• PanthalassaNarrower topic: Plate motions explain Panthalassa's changing boundaries and eventual disappearance.

• Scotia PlateNarrower topic: The Scotia Plate’s shape and motion are defined by interactions among surrounding plates.

• SupercontinentNarrower topic: Plate motion carries continents together and apart, creating and dispersing supercontinents.