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tectonic plate
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continuous section of the lithosphere of the Earth which is moving relative to adjacent plates
Wikidata facts
- Part of
- plate tectonics
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- Commons category
- Plate tectonics
- topic's main category
- Category:Tectonic plates
- topic has template
- Template:Infobox tectonic plate
- studied by
- tectonics
- has list
- list of tectonic plates
- exact match
- purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01001097
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Encyclopedic overview
Map of Earth's 16 principal tectonic plates
Convergent: Collision zone
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “tectonic plate” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.