What is an major tectonic plate?
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A major tectonic plate is a continent. The earth surface is divided into seven major and eight minor plates. The largest plates, or as you would call it, the largest major tectonic plates are the Antarctic, Eurasian, North American, African, South American, Pacific (or better said almost entirely oceanic) and the Indo-Australian plate-
Plate tectonics - Wikipedia
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Plate tectonics (from the Late Latin tectonicus, from the Greek: τεκτονικός "pertaining to building") is a scientific theory describing the large-scale motion of seven large plates and the movements of a larger number of smaller plates of the Earth's lithosphere.
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Plate tectonics theory contradicts a basic assumption of evolution, that natural processes have not changed anything in a very long time, and it also indicates that the Earth at one time was half its present size. Modern science does not address these issues.
These make up the continents and ocean basins. The plates move in relation to one another. Where they draw apart, they thin out and form the rifts of the mid-ocean ridges. Worldwide, plates move at an average of about one inch [3 cm] per year.
According to the plate tectonic theory, as the plates diverge along the ridge system, they allow hot rock from the mantle, the region below the crust, to rise. The hot material forms new oceanic crust along the rift zone, but this does not result in the plates’ fusing together. Instead, they continue to part, which makes the rift system resemble a massive wound that never heals.
There are a lot of benefit that come with this process. For more detailed information please research, jw.org (The Ocean Floor—Its Secrets Revealed)