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Our fingers grow as fast as the tectonic plates that cover the Earth like a jigsaw puzzle, but over a billion years, enough to travel the entire planet – in an exciting new video show. In one of the most complete models of tectonic plate movement, scientists have condensed a …

Scientists have identified an old part of the Pacific Ocean – the ancient remnants of the ocean floor long before that – that stretches hundreds of miles below China in the transition zone of the Earth’s crust. The rocky slab that was used to line the bottom of the Pacific …