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How tectonic plates formed

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The plates — interlocking slabs of crust that float on Earth's viscous upper mantle — were created by a process similar to the subduction seen today when one plate dives below another, the report says. ... Other researchers have estimated that a global tectonic plate system emerged around 3 billion years ago.

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