Geophysicists find the crusty culprits behind sudden tectonic plate movements

Monday, January 19, 2015 - 15:00 in Earth & Climate

Yale-led research may have solved one of the biggest mysteries in geology—namely, why do tectonic plates beneath the Earth's surface, which normally shift over the course of tens to hundreds of millions of years, sometimes move abruptly?

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