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tectonic plates

  1. The dozen or so plates that make up the surface of the Earth . Their motion is studied in the field of plate tectonics .


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Notes

The plates are not the same as the continents . The North American plate, for example, extends from the middle of the Atlantic Ocean to the west coast of the United States and Canada . These plates are about thirty miles thick.

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