>>11285472You can look up books on the subject which interests you, read them, and take good notes. Once you've read a few books, you can make citation-based improvements to the language you find to be subpar.
You can even make valid improvements to the phrasing of a given article, /even if you know nothing about the subject matter/, as long as you don't screw up any factual information. This is known as "copyediting".
To your actual question: since I don't know anything about the subject, I advise you to use a reputable search engine to look up undergrad-tier books on the subject and its related field (geology). I would also imagine that looking up books about earthquakes is germane. I see four types of documents you want:
-undergrad geology textbooks, formal education
-non-fiction "nature/science" books about geology/earth science generally, aimed at the layperson (these would tend to be physically large books, picture-heavy)
-narrative non-fiction about earthquakes (with emphasis on plate physics as opposed to xyz "human story"
-scientific journal articles related to plate tectonics
I have one book from the second category, a children's book. "The Big Book of the Earth", Dougal Dixon, 1991. Here is one good quote: "Each plate consists of the crust-oceanic and continental-and the topmost layer of the mantle. It rides on the soft layer of the mantle beneath. The seams along which the plates grow are rarely seen. They lie at the bottom of the oceans. Here, hot material from the mantle wells up as a series of underwater volcanoes forming a ridge along the ocean floor. The molten material becomes solid and produces new crust and mantle. Then this cracks and moves apart as even newer material wells up in between. We know this happens because the rocks by the oceanic ridges are quite new, and they become older as they move farther away from the ridge crests." (Dixon, 16).
