explain the important lithospheric plate movements?
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Geologists believe this motion is driven by convection in Earth's mantle which causes hot rock to rise and cooler rock to sink. When the denser tectonic platedives beneath another plate it is due to the high energy by the Earth's gravity that pushes into the mantle.
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