Archive for November 19th, 2014

Tectonic plates not rigid, deform horizontally in cooling process

The puzzle pieces of tectonic plates that make up the outer layer of earth are not rigid and don’t fit together as nicely as we were taught in high school. A study published in the journal Geology by Corné Kreemer, an associate professor at the University of Nevada, Reno, and his colleague Richard Gordon of […]