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What Drives Plate Motion?

Heat and gravity are fundamental to the process

The energy source for plate tectonics is Earth’s internal heat while the forces moving the plates are the “ridge push” and “slab pull” gravity forces. It was once thought that mantle convection could drive plate motions.Dec 12, 2017

What drives the movement of the plates?

Earth’s crust, called the lithosphere, consists of 15 to 20 moving tectonic plates. … The heat from radioactive processes within the planet’s interior causes the plates to move, sometimes toward and sometimes away from each other. This movement is called plate motion, or tectonic shift.

Robert Thorne

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