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Understanding Plate Tectonics and Hazards by Gheitan is a document available to read on EtoBox.

The document describes four types of plate boundaries: 1) Destructive margins where oceanic plates subduct under continental plates, causing volcanism and earthquakes. 2) Conservative margins where plates slide past each other, causing earthquakes but no new crust. 3) Hotspots where magma rises unexpectedly within plates, forming volcanoes and earthquakes. 4) Constructive margins where plates move apart and new crust forms in the gap through volcanism and solidifying magma, also causing earthquakes.

Author

Gheitan

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EN