Tectonic Plates

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The Earth's brittle crustal rocks are fragmented into huge tectonic plates that move in relation to one another at about the rate that fingernails grow. Over the immensity of geological time, this gradual, radioactivity-driven motion has crashed continents together and then ripped them apart again.