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Also Known As	tectonism

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continental drift fault isostasy burial crustal thinning crustal shortening subsidence uplift epeirogeny ramp valley plate tectonics earthquake seafloor spreading volcanism seismicity supercontinent continent How Do Tectonic Plates Move?

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