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There are 15 main plates altogether they are the:

  1. African Plate
  2. Antarctic Plate
  3. Eurasian Plate
  4. Indo-Australian Plate
  5. North American Plate
  6. Pacific Plate
  7. South American Plate
  8. Arabian Plate
  9. Caribbean Plate
  10. Cocos Plate
  11. Indian Plate
  12. Juan de Fuca Plate
  13. Nazca Plate
  14. Philippine Sea Plate
  15. Scotia Plate

Of these the African Plate, the Eurasian Plate, the Indo-Australian Plate, the North American Plate, the South American Plate, and the Antarctic Plate are major continental plates.

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