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One of the large, rigid segments into which the outer shell of the Earth is divided: a plate is a slab of lithosphere that moves more or less as a unit over the weaker asthenosphere beneath it, so that most earthquakes, volcanism, and mountain building happen at the boundaries where plates meet rather than in their interiors. Morgan's 1968 Rises, trenches, great faults, and crustal blocks treated the Earth's surface as a set of rigid blocks whose relative motions are rotations on a sphere, and showed how their boundaries account for ridges, trenches, and transform faults. The referent is a moving piece of the solid Earth, hundreds to thousands of kilometres across, and it has nothing in common with a dish of culture medium, a band of cartilage in a bone, or a slab of rubber on a ball field beyond the five letters.[1]
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