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M. R. Rampino

Patrick Hurley of MIT shows how continents fit around the Atlantic in a talk at the History of the Earth’s Crust Symposium.
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A Meeting That Helped Foster the Acceptance of Global Tectonics

by M. R. Rampino 12 December 201628 September 2021

Fifty years ago, in the United States added their heft to a theory with profound implications: Earth's ocean crust recycles itself on a global scale, and continents move across the face of the planet.

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