Animation shows an Earth drained of water and stripped of vegetation revealing its cracked shell, or lithosphere, which is composed of more than a dozen tectonic plates. The plate on the upper right in this view is the Eurasian plate, with the African plate beneath it, and the North American plate to the left. Magma in the mantle can be seen between gaps in the plates. Plate tectonics is the central mechanism behind the theory of continental drift. | |
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Credit: | Science Photo Library / PETER MATULAVICH / NOAA |
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