Case of the missing continental crust solved: It sank

Case of the missing continental crust solved: It sank Chicago IL (SPX) Oct 07, 2016 - How do you make half the mass of two continents disappear? To answer the question you first need to discover that it's missing. That's what a trio of University of Chicago geoscientists and their collaborators did. Their explanation for where the mass went significantly changes prevailing ideas about what can happen when continents collide. It also has important implications for our understandin ... more

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