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Explain how Mantle Convection works and how it impacts plate movements.
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Explain how Mantle Convection works and how it impacts plate movements.

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The plastic movement of the mantle material moves like the flow of mountain glaciers, carrying the lithospheric plates along as the convection movement in the mantle moves the asthenosphere.

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