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continents move about as plates of crust and upper mantle, on more mobile layer of asthenophere in the mantle. Movement driven by mantle convection and isostasy.

Bumps between continents = mountain chains

bump continental with oceanic = island arc vocanoes and subduction of oceanic plate

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