On the Moon, there are no continental plate tectonics.

在月球上没有大陆板块运动。

Mountains are born when continental plates collide.

大陆板块的撞击诞生了山脉。

For such huge continental plates, the motion is relatively quick.

对于如此巨大的大陆板块而言，这种运动相对迅速。

Deep below the surface, the vast continental plates of Asia and India are crashing into each other.

在地表深处，广袤的亚洲板块和印度板块相互挤压。

Friction between the plates can cause deformation of the continental plate, which accumulates a gigantic amount of energy.

板块之间的摩擦会引起大陆板块的变形，从而积累了巨大的能量。

For one, Earth's crust is made up of continental plates that essentially float in the semi-solid rock of the mantle below.

第一，地球的外壳是由大陆板块构成，实质上漂浮在半固体岩石地曼上。

To understand how this towering formation was born, we have to peer deep into our planet's crust, where continental plates collide.

要想知道其高峰是如何形成的，我们需要深入地壳去看一看，大陆板块在那里碰撞。

It might rearrange some continental plates, maybe dabble in dinosaurs again.

它可能会重新排列一些大陆板块，可能会再次涉足恐龙。

Many volcanoes on earth arise because an oceanic tectonic plate crashes into a continental plate.

地球上的许多火山都是由于海洋构造板块撞击大陆板块而产生的。

Within just a few million years, the continental plates can change dramatically.

在短短几百万年内，大陆板块会发生巨大变化。

On the other hand, Chicago and Moscow are relatively distant from the edges of continental plates.

另一方面，芝加哥和莫斯科距离大陆板块边缘相对较远。

When a continental plate come to rest over a hot spot, the material rising from deeper layers creates a broad dome.

当大陆板块停在热点上方时，从深层升起的物质会形成一个宽阔的圆顶。

We live in a changing world where the continental plates, Earth's climate, and the planet's erosive power might one day conspire to cut Mount Everest down to size.

我们处在一个不断变化的世界，大陆板块，地球的气候，以及侵蚀能力，也许会在某一刻共同将珠峰削低。

Other volcanoes, like Hawaii or the Canary Islands, are thought to be from a plume of hotter material punching its way right through the middle of a continental plate.

而其他的火山，如夏威夷或加那利群岛，则被认为是由一股更热的物质形成的烟柱直冲大陆板块的中间而形成的。

Earthquakes can create fissures allowing magma to escape to the surface, and the Earth's crust can be stretched thin as continental plates shift away from each other.

地震会产生裂缝，使岩浆逃逸到地表，并且随着大陆板块彼此远离，地壳会被拉伸变薄。

As this oceanic plate subducts or gets moved underneath this continental plate, things like water and carbon dioxide and other materials get squeezed out of it, like ringing a wet washcloth.

当这个海洋板块俯冲或移动到这个大陆板块下方时，水、二氧化碳和其他物质会被挤出， 就像弄湿毛巾一样。