Read a landscape as a process

By Our changing Earth · myAudience

myAudience · AI-generated illustration · Original generated illustration; not documentary evidence

At some boundaries plates separate; at others they converge or slide past one another. These movements help create mountains, ocean basins and volcanic regions across long timescales. A dramatic landscape is the result of many processes, including erosion. Ask which process explains a feature and what evidence supports that account. USGS’s introductory plate-tectonics material offers a starting point, rather than a complete geological history of every place.