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Major tectonic plates, Sources - Coggle Diagram
Major tectonic plates
Pacific tectonic plate
The largest one, the Pacific Plate is moving north-west relative to the plate that holds North America, and relative to hot spots coming up through the mantle from below the plates
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Eurasian tectonic plate
Eurasian Plate—forms towering mountain ranges, like the Himalaya, as Earth's crust is crumpled and pushed upward.
African Tectonic plate
The African Plate includes several cratons, stable blocks of old crust with deep roots in the subcontinental lithospheric mantle, and less stable terranes
Indian tectonic plate
North of the Indian plate is the Eurasian plate, to the south-east, the Australian plate, to the south-west, the African plate and to the west the Arabian plate.
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Antarctic tectonic plate
The Antarctic Plate includes continental crust making up Antarctica and its continental shelf, along with oceanic crust beneath the seas surrounding Antarctica.
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