Ars Technica
French scientists catch the seafloor spreading in a sudden burst, equivalent to 38 years of activity in days, proving Mother Nature is either very efficient or very lazy.
ScienceDaily
A hidden layer of slippery clay under the Pacific Ocean made Japan's 2011 earthquake and tsunami extra destructive, because of course it did.
Ars Technica
Geologists propose that ancient asteroid impacts, not plate tectonics, melted Earth's early crust into a thin, gooey layer that eventually cooled into continents.
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