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Geologists Have Found the Earth’s Missing Tectonic Plate – Universe Today
A pair of geologists have developed a technique for finding subducted tectonic plates. They’ve found one that nobody was sure existed.
Northern Canada has been keeping a secret from the rest of the world. It’s home to “Resurrection,” a tectonic plate that has been much theorized but never found until now. A team of researchers used what amounts to a CAT scan of northern Canada and the mantle underneath it to find the missing plate.
Finding it could lead to better hazard prediction and also to finding mineral and hydrocarbon deposits. But better than that, it’s helping scientists piece together Earth’s history.
A missing tectonic…
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