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Tectonic plates are pieces of Earth's crust and uppermost mantle, together referred to as the lithosphere. The plates are around 100 km (62 mi) thick and consist of two principal types of material: oceanic crust (also called sima from silicon and magnesium) and continental crust (sial from silicon and aluminium
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Earth's lithosphere is broken down into a number of rigid and irregular slabs of land masses which aren't directly connected to the core and float on the layer of molten magma.These are called as lithospheric plates or tectonic plates.
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