Small para about plate tectonic movements
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Tectonic plates are able to move because the Earth's lithosphere has greater mechanical strength than the underlying asthenosphere. Lateral density variations in the mantle result in convection; that is, the slow creeping motion of Earth's solid mantle. Plate movement is thought to be driven by a combination of the motion of the seafloor away from spreading ridges due to variations in topography (the ridge is a topographic high) and density changes in the crust (density increases as newly formed crust cools and moves away from the ridge). At subduction zones the relatively cold, dense crust is "pulled" or sinks down into the mantle over the downward convecting limb of a mantle cell. Another explanation lies in the different forces generated by tidal forces of the Sun and Moon. The relative importance of each of these factors and their relationship to each other is unclear, and still the subject of much debate.
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movement of the plates is of three types of tectonic boundaries:
convergent: where plates move into one another
divergent :where platesmove apart
transform:whereplates move sideways in relation to each other.
They move at a rate of one to two inches .
convergent: where plates move into one another
divergent :where platesmove apart
transform:whereplates move sideways in relation to each other.
They move at a rate of one to two inches .
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