This U.S. Geological Survey map shows borders of the major lithospheric plates and some minor ones too.
Plate boundaries shown according to their type: divergent, convergent, transform, or complex.
Plate boundaries shown according to their type: divergent, convergent, transform, or complex.
The Asian half of the world in colored topography with plate boundaries superimposed.
The Europe/Americas half of the world in colored topography with plate boundaries superimposed.
Velocities of the North and South American, Pacific, Nazca, Australian, Philippine and Antarctic plates.
Velocities of the Eurasian, African, Indian and Arabian plates.
Plate boundaries, volcanoes, trenches and faults for North and South America. Click through to see the whole world map.
The same for Europe and Africa, with a bit of overlap with the Americas and the Asia/Australia maps.
The same for Asia and Australia.
The oceanic lithosphere is colored according to its age, as determined by its "magnetic stripes."
A world map you can play with showing plates, craters, earthquakes and volcanoes.
Horizontal velocities measured by GPS depict current motion of the Earth's tectonic plates and deformation in plate boundary zones. Presented by Michael Heflin of the SCIGN project.
