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lithosphere crustal generation and destruction cross section of a tectonic plate island arc tectonic units of Earth's continents Figure 4: Principal plates that make up the Earth's lithosphere. Very small plates (“microplates”) have been omitted. Earth's lithosphere and upper mantle Earth's environmental spheres subducting tectonic plate
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lithosphere
crustal generation and destruction
cross section of a tectonic plate
island arc
tectonic units of Earth's continents
Figure 4: Principal plates that make up the Earth's lithosphere. Very small plates (“microplates”) have been omitted.
Earth's lithosphere and upper mantle
Earth's environmental spheres
subducting tectonic plate
How and where does magma form on Earth?
How does plate tectonics change Earth's surface?
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