Geophysical Earth in Geographic Space including Google Earth KMZ file 
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Google Earth Implementation of PLATES 1-44 ITECTS_EARTH.KMZ.zip (1KB)

Download the zip file. Unzip the KMZ file to a folder and open it in Google Earth.

GEOGRAPHIC DECIMAL DEGREES SCALE 1:150,000,000 Click on any image.


 World physiographic, known and suspected impacts Google Earh KMZ physiography and impacts

PLATE 1. World physiography (USGS), tectonic plate boundaries  (ESRI) with known (174 red)
and suspected (583 Classes 1-4 blue)
impacts sites
Vertical component of crustal plate motion, and known and suspected impacts    Google Earth TIN vertical component of crustal plate motion
PLATE 2. World physiography, tectonic plate boundaries, and vertical component
of crustal plate motion (NASA) with known   and suspected impacts sites

NASA World Crustal Age posterWorld crustal age and World Geology KMZ
PLATE 3. NOAA World Ocean Age and Continetal geology by Era.

  Google Earth TIN shaded vertical velocity component of crustal plate motion

PLATE 4. The vertical (Z) component of crustal plate-velocity based on 778 GPS stations by NASA JPL
(1989 to 2005). Triangulated integrated network (TIN) based on  stations on earth's surface.
Green stations have positive, rising motions and blue, sinking respectively. Paleo-reconstruction poles at
high northern latitudes from Klitgord and Schouten (1986)

   
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