Outline of plate tectonics

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• {{annotated link|Asthenosphere}}
• {{annotated link|Aulacogen}}
• {{annotated link|Back-arc basin}}
• {{annotated link|Bimodal volcanism}}
• {{annotated link|Continent}}
• {{annotated link|Crust (geology)|Crust}}
• {{annotated link|Epeirogenic movement}}
• {{annotated link|Fault (geology)}}
• {{annotated link|Fault mechanics}}
• {{annotated link|Active fault}}
• {{annotated link|Flux melting}}
• {{annotated link|Geodynamics}}
• {{annotated link|Island arc}}
• {{annotated link|Mantle (geology)|Mantle}}
• {{annotated link|Mohorovičić discontinuity}}
• {{annotated link|Mountain}}
• {{annotated link|Mid-ocean ridge|aka=Oceanic ridge}}
• {{annotated link|Oceanic trench}}
• {{annotated link|Paleoclimatology}}
• {{annotated link|Paleomap}}
• {{annotated link|Seamount}}
• {{annotated link|Slab (geology)}}
• {{annotated link|Slab gap hypothesis}}
• {{annotated link|Slab window}}
• {{annotated link|Supercontinent}}
• {{annotated link|Terrane}}
• {{annotated link|Volcano}}

{{annotated link|List of tectonic plate interactions|Tectonic plate interactions}}

• {{annotated link|Continental drift}}
• {{annotated link|Convergent boundary}}
• {{annotated link|Divergent boundary}}
• {{annotated link|Extensional tectonics}}
• {{annotated link|Isostasy}}
• {{annotated link|Leaky transform fault}}
• {{annotated link|Mantle convection}}
• {{annotated link|Obduction}}
• {{annotated link|Orogeny}}
• {{annotated link|Passive margin}}
• {{annotated link|Plume tectonics}}
• {{annotated link|Ridge push}}
• {{annotated link|Seafloor spreading}}
• {{annotated link|Strike-slip tectonics}}
• {{annotated link|Subduction}}
• {{annotated link|Tectonic uplift}}
• {{annotated link|Thrust tectonics}}
• {{annotated link|Transform fault|aka=Transform boundary}}
• {{annotated link|Triple junction}}

{{annotated link|Back-arc basin}}

{{annotated link|Continent}}

• {{annotated link|Africa}}
• {{annotated link|Antarctica}}
• {{annotated link|Asia}}
• {{annotated link|Australia (continent)}}
• {{annotated link|Europe}}
• {{annotated link|North America}}
• {{annotated link|South America}}

{{annotated link|Supercontinent}}

• {{annotated link|Eurasia}}

{{annotated link|Paleocontinent}}

• {{annotated link|Amazonian Craton}}
• {{annotated link|Appalachia (Mesozoic)}}
• {{annotated link|Arctica}}
• {{annotated link|Armorican terrane}}
• {{annotated link|Asiamerica}}
• {{annotated link|Atlantica}}
• {{annotated link|Australia (continent)}} (Also known as Sahul)
• {{annotated link|Avalonia}}
• {{annotated link|Baltica}}
• {{annotated link|Cathaysia}}
• {{annotated link|Chilenia}}
• {{annotated link|Chiloé Block}}
• {{annotated link|Cimmeria (continent)}}
• {{annotated link|Congo Craton}}
• {{annotated link|Chilenia}}
• {{annotated link|Cuyania}}
• {{annotated link|Laramidia}}
• {{annotated link|Iberian plate}}
• {{annotated link|Insular India}}
• {{annotated link|Kalahari Craton}}
• {{annotated link|Kazakhstania}}
• {{annotated link|Kerguelen Plateau}}
• {{annotated link|Laramidia}}
• {{annotated link|Laurentia}}
• {{annotated link|Mauritia (microcontinent)}}
• {{annotated link|North China Craton}}
• {{annotated link|Pampia}}
• {{annotated link|Río de la Plata Craton}}
• {{annotated link|São Francisco Craton}}
• {{annotated link|Siberia (continent)}}
• {{annotated link|South China Craton}}
• {{annotated link|Sundaland}}
• {{annotated link|Supercontinent}}
• {{annotated link|Columbia (supercontinent)}}
• {{annotated link|Euramerica}}
• {{annotated link|Gondwana}}
• {{annotated link|Kenorland}}
• {{annotated link|Laurasia}}
• {{annotated link|Nena (supercontinent)}}
• {{annotated link|Pangaea}}
• {{annotated link|Pannotia}}
• {{annotated link|Rodinia}}
• {{annotated link|Ur (continent)}}
• {{annotated link|Vaalbara}}

{{annotated link|Earthquake}}

• {{annotated link|Blind thrust earthquake}}
• {{annotated link|Intraplate earthquake}}
• {{annotated link|Interplate earthquake}}
• {{annotated link|Megathrust earthquake}}

{{annotated link|Ocean}}

{{annotated link|List of ancient oceans}}

• {{annotated link|Adamastor Ocean}}
• {{annotated link|Boreal Sea}}
• {{annotated link|Bridge River Ocean}}
• {{annotated link|Iapetus Ocean}}
• {{annotated link|Central American Seaway}}
• {{annotated link|Goianides Ocean}}
• {{annotated link|Goiás Ocean}}
• {{annotated link|Hudson Seaway}}
• {{annotated link|Iapetus Ocean}}
• {{annotated link|Khanty Ocean}}
• {{annotated link|Lapland-Kola Ocean}}
• {{annotated link|Mirovia}}
• {{annotated link|Paleo-Tethys Ocean}}
• {{annotated link|Pan-African Ocean}}
• {{annotated link|Pannonian Sea}}
• {{annotated link|Panthalassa}}
• {{annotated link|Paratethys}}
• {{annotated link|Pharusian Ocean}}
• {{annotated link|Piemont-Liguria Ocean}}
• {{annotated link|Poseidon Ocean}}
• {{annotated link|Pre-Svecofennian Ocean}}
• {{annotated link|Proto-Tethys Ocean}}
• {{annotated link|Rheic Ocean}}
• {{annotated link|Slide Mountain Ocean}}
• {{annotated link|Sundance Sea}}
• {{annotated link|Tethys Ocean}}
• {{annotated link|Tornquist Sea}}
• {{annotated link|Turgai Sea}}
• {{annotated link|Ural Ocean}}
• {{annotated link|Valais Ocean}}
• {{annotated link|Western Interior Seaway}}

{{annotated link|Superocean}}

• {{annotated link|Mirovia}}
• {{annotated link|Pan-African Ocean}}
• {{annotated link|Panthalassa}}

{{annotated link|Orogeny}}

• {{annotated link|List of orogenies}}
• {{annotated link|Mountain formation}}
• {{annotated link|Fold mountains}}
• {{annotated link|Algoman orogeny}}

{{annotated link|Rift}}

• {{annotated link|Mid-ocean ridge}}

• {{annotated link|Saint Lawrence rift system}}

• {{annotated link|Propagating rift}}

• {{annotated link|East African Rift}}
• {{annotated link|Laptev Sea Rift}}
• {{annotated link|Afar Triangle}}

• {{annotated link|Aden Ridge}}
• {{annotated link|Cocos Ridge}}
• {{annotated link|Explorer Ridge}}
• {{annotated link|Gorda Ridge}}
• {{annotated link|Juan de Fuca Ridge}}
• {{annotated link|South American–Antarctic Ridge}}
• {{annotated link|Chile Rise}}
• {{annotated link|East Pacific Rise}}
• {{annotated link|East Scotia Ridge}}
• {{annotated link|Gakkel Ridge}}(Mid-Arctic Ridge)
• {{annotated link|Nazca Ridge}}
• {{annotated link|Pacific-Antarctic Ridge}}
• {{annotated link|Central Indian Ridge}}
• {{annotated link|Carlsberg Ridge}}
• {{annotated link|Southeast Indian Ridge}}
• {{annotated link|Southwest Indian Ridge}}
• {{annotated link|Mid-Atlantic Ridge}}
• Kolbeinsey Ridge (North of Iceland)
• Mohns Ridge
• {{annotated link|Nikolai Mikhailovich Knipovich|Knipovich}} Ridge (between Greenland and Spitsbergen)
• {{annotated link|Reykjanes Ridge}} (South of Iceland)

{{annotated link|Aulacogen}}

• {{annotated link|Adelaide Rift Complex}}
• {{annotated link|Alpha Ridge}}
• {{annotated link|Aegir Ridge}}
• {{annotated link|Anza trough}}
• {{annotated link|Bahr el Arab rift}}
• {{annotated link|Benue Trough}}
• {{annotated link|Central Lowlands}}
• {{annotated link|Eastern North America Rift Basins}}
• {{annotated link|Fundy Basin}}
• {{annotated link|Gulf of Suez Rift}}
• {{annotated link|Gulf St Vincent}}
• {{annotated link|Kula-Farallon Ridge}}
• {{annotated link|Melut Basin}}
• {{annotated link|Midcontinent Rift System}}
• {{annotated link|Mississippi embayment}}
• {{annotated link|Muglad Basin}}
• {{annotated link|Narmada River}}
• {{annotated link|New Madrid Seismic Zone}}
• {{annotated link|Newark Basin}}
• {{annotated link|Nipigon Embayment}}
• {{annotated link|Oslo Graben}}
• {{annotated link|Ottawa-Bonnechere Graben}}
• {{annotated link|Pacific-Farallon Ridge}}
• {{annotated link|Pacific-Kula Ridge}}
• {{annotated link|Phoenix Ridge}}
• {{annotated link|Saguenay Graben}}
• {{annotated link|Southern Oklahoma Aulacogen}}
• {{annotated link|Spencer Gulf}}
• {{annotated link|Timiskaming Graben}}
• {{annotated link|Wichita Mountains}}

{{annotated link|Subduction|Subduction zone}}

• {{annotated link|Middle America Trench}}

{{annotated link|Suture (geology)}}

• {{annotated link|Great Falls Tectonic Zone}}
• {{annotated link|Huincul Fault}}
• {{annotated link|Iapetus Suture}}
• {{annotated link|Indus-Yarlung suture zone}}
• {{annotated link|Jormua Ophiolite}}
• {{annotated link|Magallanes-Fagnano Fault}}
• {{annotated link|Morais ophiolite complex}}
• {{annotated link|Periadriatic Seam}}
• {{annotated link|Pieniny Klippen Belt}}
• {{annotated link|Trans-European Suture Zone}}
• {{annotated link|Vulcan structure}}

{{annotated link|Tectonic plate}}

• {{annotated link|List of tectonic plates}}
• {{annotated link|African plate}}
• {{annotated link|Anatolian plate}}
• {{annotated link|Antarctic plate}}
• {{annotated link|Arabian plate}}
• {{annotated link|Burma plate}}
• {{annotated link|Cocos plate}}
• {{annotated link|Eurasian plate}}
• {{annotated link|Explorer plate}}
• {{annotated link|Farallon plate}}
• {{annotated link|Gorda plate}}
• {{annotated link|Indian plate}}
• {{annotated link|Juan de Fuca plate}}
• {{annotated link|Halmahera plate}}
• {{annotated link|Indo-Australian plate}}
• {{annotated link|Pacific plate}}
• {{annotated link|Molucca Sea plate}}
• {{annotated link|Nazca plate}}
• {{annotated link|North American plate}}
• {{annotated link|Philippine Sea plate}}
• {{annotated link|South American plate}}
• {{annotated link|Sunda plate}}

{{annotated link|terrane}}

• {{annotated link|Arctic Alaska-Chukotka terrane}}
• {{annotated link|Arequipa-Antofalla}}
• {{annotated link|Armorican Massif}}
• {{annotated link|Armorican terrane}}
• {{annotated link|Avalonia}}
• {{annotated link|Briançonnais zone}}
• {{annotated link|Bronson Hill Arc}}
• {{annotated link|Buffalo Head terrane}}
• {{annotated link|Cache Creek terrane}}
• {{annotated link|Carolina terrane}}
• {{annotated link|Cassiar terrane}}
• {{annotated link|Chilenia}}
• {{annotated link|Chiloé Block}}
• {{annotated link|Cuyania}}
• {{annotated link|Cymru terrane}}
• {{annotated link|Florida Platform}}
• {{annotated link|Franciscan Assemblage}}
• {{annotated link|Ganderia}}
• {{annotated link|Gascoyne Complex}}
• {{annotated link|Great Lakes tectonic zone}}
• {{annotated link|Great Valley Sequence}}
• {{annotated link|Hebridean terrane}}
• {{annotated link|Hottah terrane}}
• {{annotated link|Irumide Belt}}
• {{annotated link|Ivrea zone}}
• {{annotated link|Lhasa terrane}}
• {{annotated link|Madre de Dios terrane}}
• {{annotated link|Meguma terrane}}
• {{annotated link|Narooma terrane}}
• {{annotated link|Narryer Gneiss terrane}}
• {{annotated link|Omineca Arc}}
• {{annotated link|Pampia}}
• {{annotated link|Pelso plate}}
• {{annotated link|Salinian Block}}
• {{annotated link|Shan–Thai terrane}}
• {{annotated link|Slide Mountain terrane}}
• {{annotated link|Smartville Block}}
• {{annotated link|Sonoma Volcanics}}
• {{annotated link|Sonomia terrane}}
• {{annotated link|Spavinaw terrane}}
• {{annotated link|Stikinia}}
• {{annotated link|Tuareg Shield}}
• {{annotated link|Western Gneiss region}}
• {{annotated link|Wrangellia terrane}}
• {{annotated link|Wrekin terrane}}
• {{annotated link|Yakutat Block}}
• {{annotated link|Yukon–Tanana terrane}}

{{annotated link|Triple junction}}

• {{annotated link|Aden-Owen-Carlsberg triple junction}}
• {{annotated link|Afar triple junction}}
• {{annotated link|Azores triple junction}}
• {{annotated link|Banda Sea triple junction}}
• {{annotated link|Boso triple junction}}
• {{annotated link|Bouvet triple junction}}
• {{annotated link|Chile triple junction}}
• {{annotated link|Fifteen-Twenty fracture zone}}
• {{annotated link|Mount Fuji}}
• {{annotated link|Galapagos triple junction}}
• {{annotated link|Iapetus Suture}}
• {{annotated link|Kamchatka-Aleutian triple junction}}
• {{annotated link|Karlıova triple junction}}
• {{annotated link|Macquarie triple junction}}
• {{annotated link|Mendocino triple junction}}
• {{annotated link|Queen Charlotte triple junction}}
• {{annotated link|Rivera triple junction}}
• {{annotated link|Rodrigues triple junction}}
• {{annotated link|Tongareva triple junction}}

• {{annotated link|Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics}}
• {{annotated link|Paleoclimatology}}
• {{annotated link|Paleomap}}
• {{annotated link|Plate reconstruction}}
• {{annotated link|Timeline of the development of tectonophysics (after 1952)}}
• {{annotated link|Timeline of the development of tectonophysics (before 1954)}}
• {{annotated link|Vine–Matthews–Morley hypothesis}}
• {{annotated link|Eclogitization}}

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• {{annotated link|Alpine Fault}}
• {{annotated link|Benham Rise|aka=Benham Plateau}}
• {{annotated link|Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain}}
• {{annotated link|Geology of the Alps}}
• {{annotated link|Indian subcontinent}}
• {{annotated link|Mariana Trench}}
• {{annotated link|Mid-Atlantic Ridge}}
• {{annotated link|Mohorovičić discontinuity}}
• {{annotated link|Molucca Sea Collision Zone}}
• {{annotated link|Pacific-Antarctic Ridge}}
• {{annotated link|Philippine Mobile Belt}}
• {{annotated link|Ring of Fire}}
• {{annotated link|San Andreas Fault}}
• {{annotated link|Tethys Ocean|aka=Tethys Sea}}

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