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What is the driving force for the movement of the lithospheric plates?

What is the driving force for the movement of the lithospheric plates?
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What is the driving force for the movement of the lithospheric plates?

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tectonic plate motions envisaged large scale convection currents in the upper mantle.

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the answer is

unequal distribution of heat within Earth

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