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Sediments Act As Lubricants for Plate Tectonics

09.09.2019 tribonet 426 Views

Plate tectonics explains the features and movement of the Earth’s surface both in the present and in the past. It is the theory that the outer shell of Earth is divided into many plates (including […]

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