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The document discusses the layers of the Earth based on composition and mechanical state. It describes the crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core. The mantle has three sublayers - the uppermost, asthenosphere, and mesosphere. The upper rigid part of the mantle is attached to the crust and called the lithosphere. Plate tectonics theory holds that the lithosphere is fragmented into tectonic plates. There are three types of plate boundaries - convergent, divergent, and transform - which form due to the move
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- Noob Kid
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