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Tectonic plates

Tectonic plates, or lithospheric plates, are fragments of the lithosphere, in other words the earth’s rigid surface envelope. The plates result from its being cut in the style of a jigsaw puzzle by a system of faults, dorsals, rifts and subduction trenches. The lithospheric plates move some centimetres a year in different directions.

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