Study of olivine provides new data set for understanding plate tectonics

Wednesday, December 14, 2016 - 17:32 in Earth & Climate

Plate tectonics, the idea that the surface of the Earth is made up of plates that move apart and come back together, has been used to explain the locations of volcanoes and earthquakes since the 1960s.

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