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New study reconstructs shift of Earth's tectonic plates

Video. Earth-moving research charts one billion years of tectonic plate movement

Updated: 03/02/2021 - 16:27 GMT+1

Tectonic plates are irregular-shaped slabs of solid rock which can vary massively in size from a few hundred to thousands of kilometers across

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