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Do plates move because of gravity?

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Anonymous

14y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

No, plates do not move because of gravity. They move because of the convection currents in the Earth's interior. The heat rises up from the core and moves the lithospheric plates across Earth's surface. The main source is heat left over from the formation of our planet.

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