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divergent boundary

linear feature that exists between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other
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divergent boundary

Summary

divergent boundary ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (259 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • divergent boundary's image is recorded as Oceanic spreading.svg[2].
  • divergent boundary's subclass of is recorded as plate boundary[3].
  • divergent boundary's part of is recorded as geomorphology[4].
  • divergent boundary's Commons category is recorded as Divergent plate boundaries[5].
  • divergent boundary's opposite of is recorded as convergent boundary[6].
  • divergent boundary's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01l7kz[7].
  • divergent boundary's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/divergent-plate-boundary[8].
  • divergent boundary's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01001099[9].
  • divergent boundary's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 1954908[10].
  • divergent boundary's Environment Ontology ID is recorded as 01001099[11].
  • divergent boundary's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 52278394[12].
  • divergent boundary's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 230295[13].
  • divergent boundary's WikiKids ID is recorded as Divergente_plaatgrens[14].

Why It Matters

divergent boundary ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (259 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] It is known by 14 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

Related Entities

geomorphology

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . Environment Ontology. Retrieved . raw.githubusercontent.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . Environment Ontology. Retrieved . raw.githubusercontent.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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