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The motion of the lithospheric plates is one of evidences of convection in the mantle. On the other hand, as a relatively independent region of the Earth's dynamic system, the existence and motion of surface plates should have a substantial modify to mantle circulation. Probablely, the mantle flow is neither purely free convection genarated by buoyancy force nor forced convection excited by boundary...