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Continent-sized slabs that makeup the crust and upper mantle are?
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What area of the earth's layers is made of huge slabs of rock that float on the mantle?
Crust
When Theory that states that Earth and crust and upper mantle are broken into enormous slabs?
Plate tectonics.
The idea that Earth's crust and rigid upper mantle are broken into enormous slabs called plates is known as?
That is plate tectonics. These slabs are constantly moving generating earth quakes.
What states that Earth's crust and rigid upper mantle are broken into enormous slabs called plates that move slowly over Earth's surface?
The theory of plate tectonics.
What area has huge slabs of rock that float on the mantle?
tectonic plates
What is the area that is made of huge slabs of rock that floats on the mantle?
Crust
What area of the earth's layers is made of huge slabs of rock that float on the mantle?
Crust
Continent-sized slabs that make up the crust and upper mantle?
I believe you're thinking of Continental plates?
When Theory that states that Earth and crust and upper mantle are broken into enormous slabs?
Plate tectonics.
The idea that Earth's crust and rigid upper mantle are broken into enormous slabs called plates is known as?
That is plate tectonics. These slabs are constantly moving generating earth quakes.
What states that Earth's crust and rigid upper mantle are broken into enormous slabs called plates that move slowly over Earth's surface?
The theory of plate tectonics.
Earths lithosphere is broken into huge moving slabs of rock driven by motions in the mantle?
The motion in the mantle is known as convection currents which helps move earth's slabs, known as plates. Convection occurs in the upper mantle known as the asthenosphere.
What area has huge slabs of rock that float on the mantle?
tectonic plates
Can a molten liquid have the strength to push giants slabs of earths crust?
Magma itself does not force the plates to move. Plate movement is caused by convection currents in the mantle because of intense heat from the Earth's core.
What are the slabs of the lithosphere floating on the molten mantle called?
They are called tectonic plates.
What is the fracture between two slabs of rock on the Earth's crust?
crevase
What layer of the earth does plates move and cause earthquakes?
the continental crust and the upper mantle. they are 12 major slabs of rocks.. called plates the bump and pull and pushh and collide causing alll types of rock formations
