tectonic plate

continuous section of the lithosphere of the Earth which is moving relative to adjacent plates
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tectonic plate

Summary

tectonic plate ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (152 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • tectonic plate's subclass of is recorded as physico-geographical object[2].
  • tectonic plate's subclass of is recorded as geomorphological unit[3].
  • tectonic plate's part of is recorded as lithosphere[4].
  • tectonic plate's part of is recorded as Earth[5].
  • tectonic plate's part of is recorded as plate tectonics[6].
  • tectonic plate's Commons category is recorded as Plate tectonics[7].
  • tectonic plate's has part is recorded as tectonic plate boundary[8].
  • tectonic plate's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/067ds[9].
  • tectonic plate's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0nbfmcw[10].
  • tectonic plate's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Tectonic plates[11].
  • tectonic plate's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300387104[12].
  • tectonic plate's PSH ID is recorded as 4540[13].
  • tectonic plate's topic has template is recorded as Template:Infobox tectonic plate[14].
  • tectonic plate's YSO ID is recorded as 21654[15].
  • tectonic plate's has list is recorded as list of tectonic plates[16].
  • tectonic plate's studied by is recorded as tectonics[17].
  • tectonic plate's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01001097[18].
  • tectonic plate's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 2147903[19].
  • tectonic plate's NE.se ID is recorded as litosfärisk-platta[20].
  • tectonic plate's Environment Ontology ID is recorded as 01001097[21].
  • tectonic plate's YSA ID is recorded as Y161616[22].
  • tectonic plate's Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija ID is recorded as litosferos-plokste[23].
  • tectonic plate's Yle topic ID is recorded as 18-122208[24].
  • tectonic plate's KBpedia ID is recorded as TectonicPlate[25].
  • tectonic plate's ScienceDirect topic ID is recorded as earth-and-planetary-sciences/tectonic-plate[26].

Why It Matters

tectonic plate ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (152 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] It is known by 80 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
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  8. [9] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  14. [15] . YSO-Wikidata mapping project. wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] . Environment Ontology. Retrieved . raw.githubusercontent.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] . Environment Ontology. Retrieved . raw.githubusercontent.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [22] . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] . KBpedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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