Image:World tectonic plate map large.png

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This is a larger, undithered, grayscale version of the USGS map found at http://pubs.usgs.gov/publications/text/slabs.html I grabbed it from a PDF version published in a National Park Service booklet, http://www2.nature.nps.gov/geology/usgsnps/pltec/platesSH.pdf found at http://www2.nature.nps.gov/geology/usgsnps/misc/pdfdocs.html and converted it to PNG.

Please don't "optimize" this image by reducing colors or dimensions. It is intentionally a large file to ease making derivatives. Thanks.

See also the images at Tectonic plate which I have the source SVG and illustrator files for, contact me for them. —Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 02:43, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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