Rifting The Lithosphere In Southern California

Saturday, October 8, 2011 - 13:20 in Earth & Climate

You can thank the stretching of continents and the oceans that filled those newly created basins for the Earth we know today.  Rifting is one of the fundamental geological forces that have shaped our planet. But rifting involves areas deep below the Earth's surface so scientists have been unable to understand fully how it occurs. read more

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