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These Revolutionary Maps Are Revealing Earth’s Geological SecretsInstead, the shell (which we call the crust) is split into several rigid plates. These are the tectonic plates. Tectonic ...
The Earth's plates jostle about in fits and starts that are punctuated with earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. 4 min read There are a few handfuls of major plates and dozens of smaller, or minor ...
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Planets on the inner edge of extrasolar habitable zones could be habitable for a couple of billion years longer than ...
Plate tectonics seems to be crucial for life on Earth, but we’ve never confirmed that it happens on other worlds - that may be about to change ...
"The Moho is a really interesting boundary for seismologists because it tells us what's happening within and between tectonic plates at depth," says Atterholt, who is now a postdoctoral fellow at ...
The continents are carried by the Earth's tectonic plates like people on an escalator. There are currently 7 giant plates sliding across the Earth's surface, and a handful of smaller ones.
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