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Significados de lithospheric plate en inglés

ruso
тектоническая плита
portugués
placas tectônicas
español
placa litosférica
catalán
tectònica

Continuous section of the lithosphere of the Earth which is moving relative to adjacent plates.

        placa litosférica
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        Examples for "tectonic plate"
        Examples for "tectonic plate"
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        It was not land, or a tectonic plate or even the whole world splitting.
        How to live safely in a science fictional universe
        2
        Near major steel-concrete tectonic plate tsunami wall built boundaries.
        Reuters
        3
        Seismometers and strain meters continuously monitor tectonic plate movement.
        Wired
        4
        It feels as if a tectonic plate has shifted.
        The Guardian
        5
        This is the edge of a tectonic plate.
        Anvil Gate
        1
        No one has the faintest idea how or why Yellowstone's ended up beneath a continental plate.
        A short history of nearly everything
        2
        I lay there as mountains formed and the continental plates shifted.
        Temperance Brennan 01 - Déjà Dead
        3
        The underside of the continental plates we live on-belowthe discontinuity lies the upper mantle.
        The Jennifer Morgue
        4
        Water flows to the mantle through areas where oceanic plates dive beneath continental plates, called subduction zones.
        Wired
        5
        Think of it this way: the surface of the Earth is made up of a mosaic of continental plates.
        BBC
        Uso de lithospheric plate en inglés
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        Plate tectonics successfully describes the surface of Earth as a mosaic of moving lithospheric plates.
        Pubmed