• Question: During convection current how does the magma move the plates because I learnt about it recently and I was curios?

    Asked by anon-39767 to Vincent on 7 Nov 2022.
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      Vincent Monchal answered on 7 Nov 2022:

      The submarine volcanoes that are under the sea contently create a bit more plate, which push the old plate. On the other hand, there is zones called subduction zone where a plate goes under another one and get recycled inside the earth, this phenomenon creates a pulling force to the plate.
      So you have a pushing force in one direction at the start of a plate and a pulling force at the end of the plate with the same direction therefore the plate moves.

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