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The tectonic plates are floating on top of the molten rock and moving around the planet.
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On what part of the earth do the crustal plates float?
The Earth's crust, also called the lithosphere, floats on the upper layer of the mantle. This part of the mantle is known as the asthenosphere.
What is a crustal plate?
A crustal plate is a rigid layer of the Earth's crust that drifts slowly on the asthenosphere as it interacts with other plates.
Tectonics plates float on what semiliquid layer?
The asthenosphere.
What semi liquid layer do the tectonic plates float on?
The asthenosphere.
Tectonic plates float on a layer of earth called the what?
Lithosphere
What layer do the crustal plates float?
The Lower part mantle
Where does crustal plates float?
the plates float on top of the upper mantle
What Plates ride or float on the top of the?
The crustal plates (both continental and oceanic) float on the denser mantle.
What plates float on a underlying molten layer?
Tectonic plates float on an underlying molten layer.
On what part of the earth do the crustal plates float?
The Earth's crust, also called the lithosphere, floats on the upper layer of the mantle. This part of the mantle is known as the asthenosphere.
What part of the earth do the crustal plates float?
The Earth's crust, also called the lithosphere, floats on the upper layer of the mantle. This part of the mantle is known as the asthenosphere.
What is a crustal plate?
A crustal plate is a rigid layer of the Earth's crust that drifts slowly on the asthenosphere as it interacts with other plates.
Do plates and crustal plates differ?
Plates and Crustal plates are not different it can also be called as Crustal rocks
How many plates are in the crustal plates?
There are 14 crustal plates on the earth.
What layer do the lithospheric plates float around on?
Asthenosphere
Tectonics plates float on what semiliquid layer?
The asthenosphere.
What semi liquid layer do the tectonic plates float on?
The asthenosphere.
