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The researchers’ simulations reveal that these continental shelves expanded dramatically. Over roughly 350 million years, the ...

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A team of Earth scientists has discovered that continents are slowly peeling apart from below—sending fragments deep into the ...

Detached continental material travels into oceanic mantle, sustaining eruptions for tens of millions of years, researchers ...