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the plates float on top of the upper mantle
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What Plates ride or float on the top of the?
The crustal plates (both continental and oceanic) float on the denser mantle.
What layer do the crustal plates float?
The Lower part mantle
Do plates and crustal plates differ?
Plates and Crustal plates are not different it can also be called as Crustal rocks
How many plates are in the crustal plates?
There are 14 crustal plates on the earth.
On what layer do the crustal plates float?
The tectonic plates are floating on top of the molten rock and moving around the planet.
How can you describe the seven crustal plates?
There are actually at least 31 identified lithospheric plates, the plates consisting of crust and uppermost mantle which float on top of the plastic-like asthenosphere of the mantle.
What is the evidence for the existence of crustal plates?
Worldwide, the mountains are the evidence of crustal plates.
How do scientists think earths crust moves?
The crustal plates (made mostly of low density granitic rock) float on the mantle (made mostly of high density basaltic rock). Convection cells in the mantle move the floating crustal plates around.
About how many crustal plates have been identified?
5 crustal plates
What do crustal plates carry?
seafloor
What is the meaning of seven crustal plates?
ang 7 crustal plates ay may pitong plato ......
What is the behavior of the crustal plates in relation to the asthenosphere?
Crustal (or lithospheric) plates are pulled or pushed by the movement of heated rock in the asthenosphere.
