In 1968 the average salary of men teachers in maintained schools in England and Wales was Â£1,646. I estimate that the last two pay settlements have raised this figure to about Â£1,880. The comparable figure at 31st March, 1963, was Â£1,244.
Two main tectonic structures are spreading centers and subduction zones. Spreading centers occur at the boundary between two plates that are moving apart, called divergent plate boundaries. Here the plate motion opens a gap between the plates and magma from the mantle rises up through it.
Divergent boundaries can create massive fault zones in the oceanic ridge system. Spreading is generally not uniform, so where spreading rates of adjacent ridge blocks are different, massive transform faults occur. These are the fracture zones, many bearing names, that are a major source of submarine earthquakes.