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Tectonic plates are large segments of the Earth's crust that move slowly. Suppose one such plate has an average speed of 2.0 cm per year.
What distance does it move in 80 seconds at this speed?

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Answer:

[tex]d=2.5367\times 10^{-6}\ cm[/tex]

Explanation:

Given:

  • speed of tectonic plate, [tex]v=2\ cm.yr^{-1}=\frac{2}{365\times 24\times 60 \times 60}\ cm.s^{-1}[/tex]
  • time of recording the plate movement, [tex]t=80\ s[/tex]

Now the distance moved by the tectonic plate in the stipulated times:

[tex]d=v.t[/tex]

[tex]d=\frac{1}{365\times 12\times 3600} \times 80[/tex]

[tex]d=2.5367\times 10^{-6}\ cm[/tex]

Tectonic plates are the mass rock from of the earth's uppermost mantle and the crust which show similar behavior of movement with respect to the other such groups of lithosphere.

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