lithospheric plate
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concept
A lithospheric plate is a rigid, outer shell segment of the Earth’s crust and upper mantle that moves over the more ductile asthenosphere, interacting with other plates at its boundaries to shape the planet’s surface.
Observed surface forms (1)
- tectonic shell ×1
Instances (8)
- Caribbean Plate
- South American Plate
- Earth lithosphere via concept surface "tectonic shell"
- Pacific Plate
- Arabian Plate
- North American Plate
- Eurasian Plate
- Indo-Australian Plate