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I think you are writing about geological plates. These are sections of the earth's crust which move very slowly in time as the underlying convection currents in the molten interior push them. The edge of a plate is a plate boundary, and it might sink below a neighbouring edge or squeeze up to the surface at such a place. Sometimes plates grind causing earthquakes.

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