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A new idea on how Earth's outer shell first broke into tectonic plates

from University of Hong Kong

A new idea on how Earth's outer shell first broke into tectonic plates University of Hong Kong The activity of the solid Earth — for example, volcanoes in Java, earthquakes in Japan, etc. — is well understood within the context of the ~50-year-old theory of plate tectonics. This theory posits that Earth’s outer shell (Earth’s “lithosphere”) is subdivided into plates that move relative to each other, concentrating most activity along the boundaries between plates. READ MORE

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