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New origin seen for Earth's tectonic plates

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Continual diving of crust into mantle is sufficient to explain formation of plate boundaries.

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  1. Bercovici, D. & Yanick, R. Nature http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature13072 (2014).

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