Attraction
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Attraction of the moon and sun can move the entire earth’s mantle
(ORDO NEWS) — Probably, the movement of tectonic plates is associated with convection currents in the Earth‘s mantle. Convection involves the rise of heated liquids. The internal mechanisms of the Earth are often modeled as convection in the Earth’s mantle itself. But even proponents of mantle convection admit that this amount of internal thermal energy is not enough to drive large-scale tectonics. There are other problems with using convection to…