A tectonic plate is one of the vast slabs the surface of the earth is broken into. A tectonic plate boundary.
They move about as fast as fingernails grow, which is enough to build the Himalayas. Almost every earthquake and volcano sits on the edge of a tectonic plate.
1nountectonic plateOne of the vast slabs the surface of the earth is broken into.
“The whole coast lies where one tectonic plate meets another.”
tectonic plate is a slab.
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