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Strange Blobs Deep Within Earth May Have Created Plate Tectonics


On the scale of benign to cataclysmic events, the whomping impact of a Mars-sized object that crashed into Earth some 4.5 billion years ago ranks pretty highly: thought to have set in motion the movement of our planet's fractured, rocky crust, new research...

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