What is the distance that plates travel across Earth's surface in a year?

Anonymous

∙ 13y ago

Updated: 8/17/2019

plates can all move at different paces but they move very slowly overall.

Ex:) The Egyptian pyramids are 3 miles away from their original area where they were built but that just proves that it took 4,500 years just for the plates to move a distance of 3 miles!

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∙ 13y ago

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