The oceanic Crust produced by the Earth today is significantly thinner than crust made 170 million years ago during the time of the Supercontinent Pangea, according to University of Texas at Austin researchers. Researchers at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics used the location of seismic refraction data (circles)  and mantle hotspots (white stars) to examine whether mid-plate volcanism substantially influenced the...

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