English Explanatory Dictionary

continental plate

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A large, thick, and relatively low-density slab of the Earth's solid lithosphere that carries continents and acts as part of the broken outer shell floating on the semifluid mantle.

Word forms

continental plate continental plates
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