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While it's the reigning theory now, the road to acceptance was long and bumpy for plate tectonics, which describes how large portions of Earth's crust slide, grind, rise and sink ever so slowly across its sludgy mantle.
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Researchers identify 10 km-thick layer containing softer, melted rock at the bottom of the #Pacificplate @VicUniWgtn @ScienceAdvances https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abn5697 https://phys.org/news/2022-09-km-thick-layer-softer-bottom-pacific.html
Researchers have identified a 10 km-thick layer containing some softer, melted rock at the bottom of the Pacific plate, a discovery that's shining new light on the movement of the Earth's massive tectonic plates.