Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Plate tectonics 2

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Original – Map of Earth's 16 principal tectonic plates, showing plate boundary types:
Divergent:
  Spreading center
  Extension zone
Convergent: Transform:
  Dextral transform
  Sinistral transform
Reason
Quality SVG file, lead image in Plate tectonics, depicts and is based on published work in 2022 in the journal of Earth-Science Reviews.
Articles in which this image appears
Plate tectonics, Outline of plate tectonics, List of tectonic plates, +5
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Sciences/Geology
Creator
University of Adelaide, Derrick Hasterok, graphics: M.Bitton