Glossary · term
Plate tectonics
Mineralogy
- Aliases
- tectonic, tectonics
- Domain
- Mineralogy
Definition
The Earth's outer shell is broken into plates that move over the mantle, and nearly everything geological — earthquakes, volcanoes, mountain belts, most ore deposits — happens where they meet.
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