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Tectonic Plates are part of the crust, and floats on the semi-molten rock magma layer.

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What layer are the plates sliding on?

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What layer are the continents sliding plates?

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What layer are the continents and tectonic plates sliding on?

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What are plates that are part of the earths outer layer called?

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What layer of the earths make up these plates and what layer are are the continents sliding on?

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What layer of the Earth makes up the tectonic plates and what layer are the continents sliding on?

The continents of the Earth are sliding through the asthenosphere. This is the viscous part of the mantle on which the plates of the lithosphere sit.


What layer of the earth makes up earths plates?

The lithosphere.


What layer in earths mantle do the plates slide over?

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What layer of earth is made up of plates that move?

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What layer of the earth are plates sliding on?

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What layer of the earth make up these plates?

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