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Summarize: How are Earth’s surface materials recycled?

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The Earth’s surface materials are recycled through the interactions between the tectonic plates and the hydrologic cycle. The surface material in the lithosphere is recycled through the process of weathering, erosion, subduction, and delamination (splitting of material into layers).

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