student expolaration tectoic plates
Introduction:- A tectonic plate (also known as a lithospheric plate) is a massive slab of solid rock that is made up of both continental and oceanic lithosphere. Plate size can range from a few hundred kilometers to thousands of kilometers; the Pacific and Antarctic Plates are among the largest. Plate tectonics was first proposed in the 1960s. However, Alfred Wegener, a German scientist, changed the scientific debate. In 1912, Wegener published two articles on the concept of continental drift.
How many tectonic plate:-
African, Antarctic, Eurasian, Indo-Australian, North American, Pacific, and South American are the seven primary plates mentioned in the World Atlas. The Pacific Plate, the largest plate in the world.
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