World map in English showing the tectonic plates boundaries with their movement vectors and selected hotspots.
Background map:
GSHHG v.2.3.7 (public domain);
Plates:
Prof. Peter Bird;
Southwest Pacific Plates’ site;
College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, Penn State;
Kenneth W. Hudnut from USGS, in Earthquake Spectra, June 2006;
USGS: This Dynamic Planet;
The Antarctic Tectonic Region’s site;
Hotspots:
Earth Magazine;
Written In Stone blogspot, by Dr. Jack Share;
Bernhard Steinberger: Plumes in a convecting mantle: Models and observations for individual hotspots, in Journal of Geophysical Research, May 2000;
Dr. Peter Schmidt;
Ridges and trenches:
USGS map;
USGS map;
Columbia University map.
Eric Gaba (Sting - fr:Sting)