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Why do lithospheric plates exist?

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Anonymous

14y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

In the Earth the lithosphere includes the crust and the uppermost mantle, which constitute the hard and rigid outer layer of the Earth.

lithosphere exists because of pedosphere .

pedosphere is the outermost layer of the Earth that is composed of soil and subject to soil formation processes. It exists at the interface of the lithosphere .

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