A new idea on how Earth's outer shell first broke into tectonic plates - Phys.org 21-Jul-2020

A new idea on how Earth's outer shell first broke into tectonic plates - Phys.org

The activity of the solid Earth—for 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 i…

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