What are the tectonic plates made of?
Levi AlexanderLarge slabs of rock.
They vary greatly in size and thickness, but 1 to 5,000 km across and 10 to 100 km thick might be a reasonable estimate, since they are merely fragments of the Earth's crust.
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Hailey AlvarezRigid lithosphere, which is made up of the Earth's crust and the uppermost layer of the mantle, is the main component of tectonic plates.
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When evaluating a one-sided limit, you need to be careful when a quantity is approaching zero since its sign is different depending on which way it is approaching zero from. Let us look at some examples.
When evaluating a one-sided limit, you need to be careful when a quantity is approaching zero since its sign is different depending on which way it is approaching zero from. Let us look at some examples.
When evaluating a one-sided limit, you need to be careful when a quantity is approaching zero since its sign is different depending on which way it is approaching zero from. Let us look at some examples.
When evaluating a one-sided limit, you need to be careful when a quantity is approaching zero since its sign is different depending on which way it is approaching zero from. Let us look at some examples.
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