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Recent discoveries offer deeper insight into the movement of tectonic plates. New research has found that variations in rock ...

New research reveals a surprising link between the ancient tectonic history of oceanic plates and their fate as they subduct ...

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Newly published research has revealed that compositional rock anomalies within oceanic plates caused by ancient tectonics ...

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Researchers from ETH Zurich and the California Institute of Technology say that these structures could be remnants of ancient tectonic plates. However, these remains could be fragments of oceanic ...

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