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Contact: Elizabeth Gardner
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Purdue University
Caption: This map illustrates the horizontal surface motions of sites in Asia. Eric Calais, a Purdue associate professor of geophysics, used global positioning systems to measure the precise movements of hundreds of points on the continent to determine how they react to collisions of the underlying tectonic plates.
Credit: Purdue graphic/Calais laboratory
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