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AysviL [449]
3 years ago
14

What processes drives motion of the plates? (Please help!!!)

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1 answer:
quester [9]3 years ago
6 0

For much of the last quarter century, the leading theory of the driving force behind tectonic plate motions envisaged large scale convection currents in the upper mantle, which can be transmitted through the asthenosphere.

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