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Tectonic Plates: Segments of the lithosphere that comprise the surface of the Earth much the way a turtle shell is composed of its plates.

Tectonics: The study of the movements and deformation of the crust on a large scale, including epeirogeny, metamorphism, folding, faulting, and plate tectonics.

Sieve Plates: Pores in the end walls of sieve elements that connect the sieve elements together. The end walls of sieve tube cells that are perforated (sieves).

Plates: Early photographic glass plates coated with emulsion.

Dry Plates: Term used to describe gelatin coated plates in the days when wet collodion process was still popular.

Plate Tectonics: The movement of the plates that make up the surface of the Earth. The revolutionary paradigm in geology that the earths crust is composed of rigid segments (plates) in constant (although con . . . View Full Definition

Antiscreen Plates: Photographic plates containing dyes that reduce the blue sensitivity. Used unfiltered, they can give results similar to those obtained with yellow filtered orthochromatic plates.

Divergent Plate Boundary: The boundary between two tectonic plates that are moving apart.