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Billion-Year Journey of Earth’s Tectonic Plates Can you recognize your continent? A new simulation offers a different view of how the continents we live on drifted into their current configuration. Unlike on every other rocky planet in the solar system, Earth’s surface is a giant jigsaw puzzle whose pieces are constantly on the move. Each puzzle piece is a tectonic plate, tremendous tartines made of the planet’s crust and a rigid slice of the underlying, squidgy-but-solid mantle. These plates mo

Tectonic plate movement can occur due to the relative density of the oceanic lithosphere and the relatively weak characteristics of the asthenosphere. Heat release from the mantle has been identified as the primary source of energy driving tectonic plates. Follow Geomark Seismics Survey and Drilling Services. for more fascinating geological insights and discoveries. #geologist #geologyrocks #plate #pangea #planet #earth #bumi #science #geoscience #tectonicplates #earthscience #astrology #lempeng