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A new idea on how Earth’s outer shell first broke into tectonic plates – Phys.org – Syria News
The activity of the solid Earthfor example, volcanoes in Java, earthquakes in Japan, etc.is well understood within the context of the ~50-year-old theory of plate tectonics. This theory posits that Ea
The activity of the solid Earthfor example, volcanoes in Java, earthquakes in Japan, etc.is well understood within the context of the ~50-year-old theory of plate tectonics. This theory posits that Earth’s outer shell (Earth’s “lithosphere”) is subdivided into plates that move relative to each other, concentrating most activity along the boundaries between plates. It may be surprising, then, that the scientific community has no firm concept on how plate tectonics got started. This month, a new a…
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