Plate tectonics may have been active on Earth since the very beginning

Wednesday, September 26, 2018 - 16:20 in Earth & Climate

A new study suggests that plate tectonics—a scientific theory that divides the earth into large chunks of crust that move slowly over hot viscous mantle rock—could have been active from the planet's very beginning. The new findings defy previous beliefs that tectonic plates were developed over the course of billions of years.

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