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Which is the most responsible for the formation of new crust at the edge of a tectonic plates?
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Diverging boundarys.
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What is crust broken up into small plates?
Tectonic plates.
A tectonic plate is a slab of earth's?
crust? what is it that you are asking exactly?
What is the tectonic plates in earth's crust?
plates of the earth's crust that float on top of the molted mantle layer.
Which layer do you find the tectonic plates?
The crust or lithosphere.
How is Earth's crust related to its lithosphere?
The crust, along with the attached uppermost brittle mantle, is called the lithosphere. Tectonic plates are also known as lithospheric plates.
What can tectonic plates also be called instead of tectonic plates?
Tectonic plates are also "Continental Crust" and "Oceanic Crust". Also lithospheric plates.
What are the giant pieces of the earth's crust called?
plates
What are the plates that make up Earth's crust?
Tectonic plates
What do you call the pieces of the Earth's crust?
The different pieces that the Earth's crust is broken into are known as tectonic plates.
How many tectonic plates are made of only oceanic crust?
how many tectonic plates are made of oceanic crust
Each huge block of earth's crust is called?
Large pieces of the Earth's crust are called tectonic plates. Currently, there are 7 to 8 major tectonic plates in the Earth's crust.
Are the tectonic plates in the earths inner core?
No the tectonic plates are on top of the crust.
What region of the earth contains tectonic plates?
the crust contains the tectonic plates!!
What type of crust is the earths tectonic plates made up of?
Tectonic plates may be made of continental crust, oceanic crust, or both.
What are moving pieces under the earths surface that form the earths crust?
The answer is tectonic plates floating on the lithosphere. Does that answer your question? LOL :)
What are the subdivision of lithosphere?
Lithosphere is categorized into two sections. They are crust and upper most mantle. Crust includes continental and oceanic crust and technology.
What do you call pieces of earth's crust that are floating on the mantle?
Tectonic plates.
