Case of Earth's Missing Continental Crust Solved: It Sank
Wednesday, October 5, 2016 - 03:01
in Paleontology & Archaeology
How do you make half the mass of two continents disappear? To answer that question, you first need to discover that it's missing. That's what a trio of University of Chicago geoscientists and their collaborator did, and their explanation for where the mass went significantly changes prevailing ideas about what can happen when continents collide.