driving plate

The driving plate is fixed neatly without the need of pins.

This force and slab suction account for almost all of the force driving plate tectonics.

Dissipation of heat from the mantle is the original source of energy driving plate tectonics.

Proposed mechanisms for driving plate tectonics.

When the clutch is engaged, the driving plate presses the driven plate against the rear face of the flywheel.

Clutches in typical cars are mounted directly to the face of the engine's flywheel, as this already provides a convenient large diameter steel disk that can act as one driving plate of the clutch.

Geology : Plate Tectonics - consists of history behind Plate Tectonics and the mechanisms driving Plate Tectonics; also has a lot of animations on Plate Tectonics.

Although subduction is thought to be the strongest force driving plate motions, it cannot be the only force since there are plates such as the North American Plate which are moving, yet are nowhere being subducted.