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Plate Tectonics Theory
By Cindy Grigg |
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1 The earth's crust and the upper part of the mantle are known as the lithosphere. The lithosphere is solid and very firm, but it is not one whole piece. It is broken into sections called plates. There are eight major plates and some smaller ones. The places where these plates meet are called plate boundaries.