Pros And Cons Of Plate Tectonics

No wonder that this idea, developed in the 1960s but based on years of research that preceded that era is described as "the unifying theory of geology”; therefore, I do not think that plate tectonic theory should be discounted because it is just a theory, since it revolutionized the way geologists view Earth. Plate tectonics is the unifying concept of geology, it also revitalized the field of geology by providing a new perspective from which to interpret many old ideas. Finally, plate tectonics explains nearly all of Earth's major surface features and activities. These include faults and earthquakes, volcanoes and volcanism, mountains and mountain building, and even the origin of the continents and ocean basins.