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

• 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.

• Continental fragmentNarrower topic: Plate motion provides the transport that relocates detached continental crust.

• EoarcheanRelated: Whether modern-style plate tectonics operated in the Eoarchean remains debated.

• Historical geologyRelated: Plate motions explain the changing positions of continents and the formation of ancient rocks.

• History of EarthRelated: Plate movement builds continents, opens oceans, and drives much of Earth’s geological history.

• Land (terrain)Related: Plate motion builds continents, raises mountains, and opens ocean basins.

• Milutin MilankovićCompared with: Tectonic rearrangements alter climate over geological timescales through geography and carbon cycling, unlike orbital pacing.

• Mountain formationRelated: Plate motion supplies the collisions and subduction that drive many episodes of mountain building.

• Paleo-Tethys OceanNarrower topic: Plate motion provides the framework for reconstructing the Paleo-Tethys and its closure.

• Seafloor spreading hypothesisNarrower topic: Spreading was the missing mechanism that allowed the full theory to be assembled by 1967.

• Adam's BridgeNarrower topic: Regional tectonic history provides broader context for the area's geology.

• Amsterdam IslandRelated: Plate movement underlies the volcanism that formed the island.

• Amur PlateNarrower topic: The Amur Plate is a proposed regional unit within this global framework.

• Cape EluanbiNarrower topic: Tectonic uplift helped form Taiwan’s mountainous island and raised coastal deposits.

• Central Indian RidgeNarrower topic: Plate motion drives the ridge's divergence and seafloor production.

• Fold mountainsNarrower topic: Plate interactions explain the large-scale compression that forms fold-mountain systems.

• FuerteventuraCompared with: The Canary Islands’ origin is debated against ordinary explanations based on plate-boundary volcanism.

• Geological history of EarthRelated: Plate motion builds continents, oceans, and mountain belts while recycling crust.

• GeologistNarrower topic: It unifies explanations of earthquakes, mountain building, and seafloor formation.

• GreywackeRelated: Greywacke-rich deep-water successions often record sedimentation near active plate margins.

• IcelandNarrower topic: Iceland’s position at a spreading plate boundary is part of this global process.

• MesoarcheanCompared with: How fully modern-style plate tectonics operated during the Mesoarchean remains debated.

• NeoarcheanRelated: Neoarchean rocks preserve evidence used to investigate when modern-style plate tectonics began.

• Oceanic basinNarrower topic: Its moving plates drive the formation and long-term rearrangement of ocean basins.

• Pacific Coast RangesNarrower topic: Different plate boundaries along the coast produced distinct mountain-building histories.

• SeabedNarrower topic: Its moving plates create, deform, and recycle large regions of seabed.

• Tectonics of VenusCompared with: The opposing model: lateral plate motion versus Venus's vertically driven, continuous deformation.

• VaalbaraRelated: Vaalbara reconstructions inform debate about how modern-style tectonic processes operated in the Archean.

• Algoman orogenyNarrower topic: The orogeny records tectonic forces that assembled and deformed Archean crust.

• American CordilleraNarrower topic: The system’s long-term formation follows movements of the American plates and their neighbors.

• Earth's internal heat budgetRelated: Internal heat drives mantle circulation that helps keep plates moving.

• Expanding EarthCompared with: It explains seafloor creation, subduction, and continental motion while retaining nearly constant Earth size.

• GeodynamicsRelated: It links deep forces to earthquakes, mountain building, and seafloor creation.

• Geologic provinceNarrower topic: Plate interactions create many of the large-scale patterns used to define provinces.

• Geologic recordRelated: Plate motion buries, deforms, transports, and exposes parts of the record.

• Geological history of MarsCompared with: Earth’s global plate recycling contrasts with the largely stagnant outer shell inferred for Mars.

• Geology of VenusCompared with: Venus lacks clear evidence for Earth’s global plate network, making its alternative heat-loss regime a central question.

• History of geomagnetismNarrower topic: Magnetic patterns in ocean crust became key evidence for seafloor spreading and plate motion.

• History of geophysicsRelated: Geophysical evidence helped establish a unified account of earthquakes, volcanoes, and seafloor motion.

• MangaiaNarrower topic: Regional plate motion underlies the volcanic and tectonic history of the Cook Islands.

• OnsenNarrower topic: Plate boundaries create much of Japan’s volcanic and geothermal activity.

• PaleocontinentNarrower topic: It supplies the framework for reconstructing continental drift and assembly.