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.
  • Apathy Tree@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    7 months ago

    From the headline and thumbnail I was sort of expecting this to be a major revelation, like omg it just started happening and it’s totally unexpected sort of thing.

    It isn’t, it’s just refining the understanding and model of plate tectonics. Still super important, and interesting, of course.