The Earth’s Shell Has Cracked, and We’re Drifting on the Pieces (Published 2018)

The theory of plate tectonics is one of the great scientific advances of our age, right up there with Darwin’s theory of evolution and Einstein’s theory of relativity. The idea that Earth’s outer shell is broken up into giant puzzle pieces, or plates, all gliding atop a kind of conveyor belt of hot, weak rock — here rising up from the underlying mantle, there plunging back into it — explains much

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Basics: プレートテクトニクスが始まった時期の研究と生命進化の話