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Plate tectonics: new findings fill out the 50-year-old theory that explains Earth's landmasses

  • Written by Philip Heron, Postdoctoral Fellow in Geodynamics, University of Toronto
imageSatellite image of California's San Andreas fault, where two continental plates come together.NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team, CC BY

Fifty years ago, there was a seismic shift away from the longstanding belief that Earth’s continents were permanently stationary.

In 1966, J. Tuzo Wilson published Did the Atlantic...

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