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Meaning of "tectonic plate"

A tectonic plate is a massive slab of rock that makes up the Earth's lithosphere, the outer layer of the Earth. These plates float on the semi-fluid asthenosphere and are responsible for the movement and collisions of continents, as well as the creation of earthquakes, mountains, and other geologic features
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  • Any of several large pieces of the Earth's lithosphere which participate in plate tectonics.

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Earthquakes occur along tectonic plate boundaries.
In a tectonic plate fissure between two continents.
Along the edges of the tectonic plate.
Entire tectonic plate has shifted.
To give a practical example of tectonic plate action.
When one tectonic plate is forced under another.
Accretion involves the addition of material to a tectonic plate.
Movement of one tectonic plate beneath another.
This is because it is located in the middle of a tectonic plate.
Possibly a tectonic plate slippage.
Tectonic plate depth achieved.
Bedrock incision can be caused by tectonic plate movement.
Determine tectonic plate movements associated with continental drift.
They also help to investigate tectonic plate motions.
Tectonic plate movement theory.

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The scars do not correspond to the tectonic plate boundaries.
Animation of tectonic plate subduction and resulting valcanic activity.
Most tsunamis are caused by earthquakes on converging tectonic plate boundaries.
Massive geopolitical tectonic plate movements are about to break surface.
Along the fault lines at the edge of the tectonic plate.
An area where one tectonic plate is being forced under another.
And they can occur right in the middle of a tectonic plate.
The crust of a tectonic plate moves about this fast.
Oceanic crust is the uppermost layer of the oceanic portion of a tectonic plate.
Tectonic plate boundaries.
It is part of the tectonic plate.
The tectonic plate.
They also prevented many earthquakes by stabilizing the tectonic plate activity.
Indian tectonic plate.
Tectonic plate boundary.
Anatolian tectonic plate.
The mineral alteration is particularly important at the sea floor at tectonic plate boundaries.
We have activation of the tectonic plate where the epicenter is situated.
Others were very wary about any technique that disturbed the seafloor near tectonic plate boundaries.
They were living on a tectonic plate where earthquakes and volcanic eruptions were common.
The quake was caused by the movement of the tectonic plate in the area.
Versions fixed to a tectonic plate differ from the global version by at most a few centimetres.
They sit on the African tectonic plate.
A new study of tectonic plate boundaries may help scientists understand how earthquakes happen.
Many volcanoes on earth arise because an oceanic tectonic plate crashes into a continental plate.
Tectonic plate movement detected in Shanghai area.
The pan developed through tectonic plate activity over about ten million years.
Tectonic plate movements sourced in Shanghai area.
Hydrothermal vents typically form on the tectonic plate boundaries and in association with hotspots.
This subcontinent is situated on top of the Indian tectonic plate.
Shares the same tectonic plate as Eyjafjallajokull.
The Japanese archipelago is in a subduction zone with great tectonic plate movement.
Because Chile is on a tectonic plate border earthquakes are frequent.
Japanese seismologists warn seismic tension is building on a tectonic plate east of Tokyo.
This is caused by tectonic plate compression within the Earth.

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