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Why does land separate?

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Anonymous

16y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

There is a theory called plate tetonics, which is basically that the earth has many different plates that sometimes move. When they move, they take the land above them with them. The elastic rebound theory is one of the reasons for earthquakes.

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