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continental plate en · NOUN
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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.
Warping of the continental plate created fissures and fractures in the Roraima sandstone plateaus.
1989 May, Uwe George, “Venezuela's Islands in Time”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, page 543:
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