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What can the Earth tell us about itself?

5 Live Science Podcast

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Are There Different Kinds of Plates?

A plate is a spherical cap which sits on top of the Earth, and it slides around. There are about 12 major ones - they all slide around,. move past each other, and bash into each other. And do these passengers affect the way that each plate interacts with one another? Yes they do, because when plates meet each other, generally what happens is one slides underneath the other.

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