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Earth's Mystery Core Plumbed

Japanese geophysicist floats theory of lifecycle for Earth's plates

By Wesley Oliver,  Newser Staff

Posted Jan 27, 2008 9:32 AM CST

(Newser) – Climate change has sparked heated debate about the Earth’s surface, but a controversial new theory is directing scientists to its core, Der Spiegel reports. To explain why contintental plates drift on the surface of the Earth's molten mantle, Maruyama Shigenori, a leading geophysicist, argues...   Read full story »

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