Tectonics and Landforms

Portion of the San Andreas fault.
Image generated using data from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM)
Courtesy NASA/JPL/NIMA 

In this chapter you'll travel back to a distant time when the geography of the Earth's crust was much different than it is today. The search for answers to Earth's dynamic nature will set the context for explaining modern day tectonic activity. By the conclusion of the chapter you should be able to explain how plate movement has created many of the surface features of our present day Earth.

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