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Earth's lithosphere and upper mantle Crew members aboard a drilling ship inspecting a rock core during a scientific expedition that succeeded for the first time in drilling through the upper oceanic crust. crustal generation and destruction age of Earth's oceanic crust seafloor spreading and magnetic striping cross section of a tectonic plate
How does plate tectonics change Earth's surface?
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Earth's lithosphere and upper mantle
Crew members aboard a drilling ship inspecting a rock core during a scientific expedition that succeeded for the first time in drilling through the upper oceanic crust.
crustal generation and destruction
age of Earth's oceanic crust
seafloor spreading and magnetic striping
cross section of a tectonic plate
How does plate tectonics change Earth's surface?
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