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Just thought you might enjoy this quote about plate tectonics: “After some 25 years of acceptance, plate tectonics has acquired a conventionality comparable to that of Darwinian evolution. Yet many areas remain unexplained, and new evidence continues to appear, requiring modification of current theory. Although there is a consensus that some sort of thermal convection may drive the plates, the mechanism behind plate motion is still controversial and poorly understood. It is ironic that Wegener’s hypothesis of continental drift was rejected largely because it lacked a plausible driving mechanism, yet plate tectonics is widely accepted today despite a similar lack.” (Chatterjee. New Concepts in Global Tectonics, 1992, p. ix)
Posted on: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 15:18:12 +0000

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