Plates move from a fraction of an inch (a few millimeters) to about 5 inches (13 centimeters) a year.
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About the same rate that finger nails grow. Usually a few centimeters per year.
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On average, at about the rate that fingernails grow, approximately 3-4cm per year. This is variable, however, often across an individual plate, between 1-2cm per year for the slowest moving plates up to around 10cm per year.
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The movement of the plates creates three types of tectonic boundaries: convergent, where plates move into one another; divergent, where plates move apart; and transform, where plates move sideways in relation to each other. ... How Fast Do Tectonic Plates Move?
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I suppose there's no agreeable data because there is probably no real efficient method of measuring all the tectonic plates on earth. There are many factors involved with plate tectonics; they don't just move in one path, but they individually take many different paths.
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These pieces of Earth’s top layer are called tectonic plates. They are moving very slowly, but constantly. (Most plates are moving about as fast as your fingernails are growing -- ... When the tectonic plates under the continents and oceans move, they carry the continents and oceans with them. Can you trace the paths of...
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The lithosphere is broken up into what are called tectonic plates, in the case of ... These plates move in relation to one another at one of three types of plate boundaries: convergent or collision boundaries, divergent or spreading boundaries, and transform boundaries. Earthquakes, volcanic activity, mountain-building,
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Scientists now have a fairly good understanding of how the plates move and how such movements relate to earthquake activity. Most movement occurs along narrow zones between plates where the results of plate-tectonic forces are most evident. ... We can measure how fast tectonic plates are moving today, but how do...
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In the beautiful and rugged mountains of southeast Alaska, glaciers grind mountains down as fast as the earth's colliding tectonic plates shove them up. ... This fragment, the Yakutat microplate, is sandwiched between the colliding Pacific and North American plates, which move closer together by about 5 centimeters per year,
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