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Tell that to the folks who published the first hints of plate tectonics, an idea which was certainly not accepted by the consensus geological community at first.— California Literary Review
Plate tectonics is a fairly complicated theory about global-scale processes.— RealClimate
"We show that this occurred because of limited melting of the asteroid, and thus illustrate that the formation of andesite crust has occurred in our solar system by processes other than plate tectonics, which is the generally accepted process that created the crust of Earth."— Space News From SpaceDaily.Com
Like plate tectonics, but without the awesome explosions and earthquakes— EDSBS
Nothing has stopped plate tectonics or the orbital cycles, and eventually they will make their presence felt.— RealClimate

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