This is the fastest plate velocity on Earth, a result is the earth's most active zone of mantle seismicity. Subduction rates decrease southward along the Tonga-Kermadec Arc, from 24 cm/year (9.4 in/year) in the north to 6 cm/year (2.4 in/year) in the south and also become more oblique southward. ... along-arc mantle flow that indicate that Pacific mantle is being replaced …

13/05/2022 · Plate tectonics is the theory that Earth’s outer shell is divided into several plates that glide over Earth's mantle. ... Pacific, Eurasian, African, Indo-Australian, South American and ...

India lies on the Indian Plate, the northern portion of the Indo-Australian Plate, whose continental crust forms the Indian subcontinent.The country is situated north of the equator between 8°4' and 37°6' north latitude and 68°7' and 97°25' east longitude. It is the seventh-largest country in the world, with a total area of 3,287,263 square kilometres (1,269,219 sq mi). India …

Europeans in the 16th century divided the world into four continents: Africa, America, Asia, and Europe. Each of the four continents was seen to represent its quadrant of the world—Africa in the south, America in the west, Asia in the east, and Europe in the north. This division fit the Renaissance sensibilities of the time, which also divided the world into four seasons, four …