From Drip to Glide: How Plate Tectonics Started

Sunday, April 6, 2014 - 12:30 in Earth & Climate

A new model seeks to explain why Earth's plate tectonics is unique among the sun's rocky planets. It all comes down to tiny minerals in rocks.

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