Assertion: lithosphere's plate | /r/HasProperty | lithosphere
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text: The mid-ocean ridge is where the seafloor spreading occurs, in which tectonic plates—large slabs of Earth’s lithosphere—split apart from each other.
text: Plates are variously-sized (approximately 60 miles thick) areas of the earth's crust and mantle (also called the lithosphere) that move slowly around the mantle's asthenosphere and are predominantly responsible for the earth's volcanoes and earthquakes.