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continental plates

continental plates is the plural of continental plate.

Meaning of continental plate

Noun

continental plate (plural continental plates)

  1. A large, thick, and relatively low-density slab of the Earth's solid lithosphere that carries continents and acts as part of the broken outer shell floating on the semifluid mantle.
    • Warping of the continental plate created fissures and fractures in the Roraima sandstone plateaus.1989 May, Uwe George, “Venezuela's Islands in Time”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, page 543

Questions about continental plates

What is continental plates the plural of?
Continental plates is the plural of continental plate.

Words near continental plates in the dictionary

  1. continental glaciers
  2. Continental Navy
  3. continental philosophies
  4. continental philosophy
  5. continental plate
  6. continental plates
  7. continental quilt
  8. continental quilts
  9. continental seating
  10. continental shelf
  11. continental shelves

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