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DescriptionTectonic plates.png	English: English text version of Image:Tectonic plates (empty).svg Tectonic plates of the Earth. From wikipedia.en, retrieved from USGS site: http://pubs.usgs.gov/publications/text/slabs.html Original Image URL: [3] Listed contact: mailto:jmwatson@usgs.gov I uploaded a larger image made from the original illustrator file. —Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 02:37, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Date	30 December 2004 (upload date)
Source	[4]
Author	Map:USGS Description:Muriel Gottrop~commonswiki
Other versions	Derivative works of this file: Tectonic plates (empty).png

This image was selected as picture of the day on Wikimedia Commons for 20 February 2005. It was captioned as follows:

English: Map of the tectonic plates of the Earth

Other languages:

Čeština: Mapa tektonických desek Země

Deutsch: Karte der tektonischen Platten der Erde

English: Map of the tectonic plates of the Earth

Español: Mapa de las placas tectónicas de la Tierra.

Esperanto: Mapo de la tectonic teleroj de la tero

Français : Carte des plaques tectoniques terrestres.

Italiano: Mappa delle placche tettoniche della terra

Lëtzebuergesch: Kaart vun den tektonesche Placke vun der Äerd.

Nederlands: Kaart met de tektonische platen van de aarde

Norsk bokmål: Kart over verdas tektoniske plater.

Polski: Mapa płyt tektonicznych Ziemi.

Português: Mapa das placas tectônicas da Terra

Suomi: Maapallon tektoniset laatat.

Svenska: Karta över de tektoniska plattor som täcker jordens yta.

Български: Карта на тектоничните плочи на Земята

Русский: Карта тектонических плит

日本語：地球の表面を覆うプレート

中文：地球板块结构图

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	03:25, 4 February 2022	6,740 × 4,600 (4.45 MB)	TSamuel	Restored previous version, but losslessly recompressed
	20:58, 26 October 2005	4,150 × 2,832 (3.05 MB)	Dbenbenn	thumbnail, since MediaWiki now refuses to scale PNG images that are more than 12.5 megapixels
	09:40, 26 October 2005	6,740 × 4,600 (4.96 MB)	Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason	Larger version from Image:Tectonic plates large.png
	22:46, 30 December 2004	634 × 433 (52 KB)	Muriel Gottrop~commonswiki	Tectonic plates