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Discovering Plate Boundaries
Teachers Guide: Part 2
“A Tour of the Maps”
Dale S. SawyerProfessor of Earth Science
Rice University
Houston, Texas
dale@rice.edu
Left side of mapRight side of map
Note that this kind of map wraps around at its edge!
Pacific Plate
Eurasian Plate
North American Plate
South American Plate
Nazca Plate
Antarctic Plate
Eurasian Plate
Indian Plate
Himalaya Mountains
Andes Mountains
Tibetan Plateau
Himalayan Mtns.
Mt. Everest
Alps Zagros Mtns. Western Himalaya
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