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Breaking Earth’s shell into a global plate network

The initiation mechanism of Earth’s plate tectonic cooling system remains uncertain. A growing consensus suggests that multi-plate tectonics was preceded by cooling through a single-plate lithosphere, but models for how this lithosphere was first broken into plates have not converged on a mechanism...

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Autores principales: Tang, C. A., Webb, A. A. G., Moore, W. B., Wang, Y. Y., Ma, T. H., Chen, T. T.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7367830/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32681054
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17480-2