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.
At spreading ridges, or similar extensional boundaries, earthquakes are shallow, aligned strictly along the axis of spreading, and show an extensional mechanism. Earthquakes in extensional environments tend to be smaller than magnitude 8. (Click here for an explanation of earthquake magnitude). A close-up topographic picture of the Juan de Fuca spreading ridge, offshore of the Pacific Northwest, shows the turned-up edges of the spreading center.