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PROF. J. TUZO WILSON1–3 has suggested that mountains, mid-ocean ridges, and major horizontal shear faults are not isolated features, that few come to dead ends, but that they are connected into a continuous network of mobile belts around the Earth which divide the surface into several large rigid plates.
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HERNES, I. Global Network of Mobile Belts. Nature 210, 725–726 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/210725b0
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