No one can travel inside the earth to study what happens there. So scientists must do their best to replicate real-world conditions inside the lab. Earth's fault lines between Tectonic Plates [Credit: © Mopic/Fotolia]"We are interested in large-scale geophysical processes, like how Plate tectonics initiates and how plates move underneath one another in subduction zones," said David Goldsby, an associate professor at the University of...

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