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Fig. 1

From: The present-day number of tectonic plates

Fig. 1

Plot of plate area (logarithmic scale) versus plate number from smallest to largest. Equations are given for the two straight lines fitting 35 plates on either side of the nick point. The smallest plate (#5 from Hammond et al. (2011) is almost 400,000 times smaller in area than the largest plate (Pacific)

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