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What drives tectonic plates?

Does Earth’s mantle drive plates, or do plates drive mantle flow? This long-standing question may be ill posed, however, as both the lithosphere and mantle belong to a single self-organizing system. Alternatively, this question is better recast as follows: Does the dynamic balance between plates and...

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Autores principales: Coltice, Nicolas, Husson, Laurent, Faccenna, Claudio, Arnould, Maëlis
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Association for the Advancement of Science 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6821462/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31693727
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aax4295