Tectonics Model

Description

Provide your students with an innovative look at plate tectonics with this hand-painted plastic model, showing detailed representations of the earth layers. Both active and passive margins are shown addition to oceanic ridges with rift valley, benjoff plane, oceanic trenches, continental shelf and slopes. Use this artistic re-creation to communicate the importance of plate movements in relation to volcanism and seismicity. Oceanic floor spreading is also well characterized to illustrate the development of a rift into a new structure.