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Sunday, September 9, 2012

UCLA scientist discovers plate tectonics on Mars


Many scientists had thinking plate tectonics that survive nowhere but in our solar system on Earth. Now, a UCLA scientist has discovered that the geological phenomenon, Which Involves the movement of huge crustal plates beneath a planet's surface, also exists on Mars.

"Mars is at a primitive stage of plate tectonics. Gives us a glimpse It of how the Earth early May have looked and may help us understand how plate tectonics on Earth Began," said An Yin, a UCLA professor of Earth and space sciences and the sole author of the new research.