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    Quote Originally Posted by mwagner View Post
    Would it be safe to assume that the plates move with rotation and not just linearly?
    No. It would be quite unsafe.
    Imagine the convection cell like an underground cylinder with rotation axis parallel to the ground. The molten rock is rising on one side and sinking on the other side. The upper part of the cylinder is glued to a plate and moves it when it is rotating.
    So the plate can't rotate (in a plan orthogonal to the radius) because there is no force that would make it rotate. The cell is simply translating it.

    Of course this is a schematical representation, in reality the cell is not a cylinder but an irregular potato like shape but hat doesn't change the basic principle above.

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