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How Earth's Pacific plates collapsed

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Scientists drilling into the ocean floor have, for the first time, found out what happens when one tectonic plate first gets pushed under another. The international expedition drilled into the Pacific ocean floor and found distinctive rocks formed when the Pacific tectonic plate changed direction and began to plunge under the Philippine Sea Plate about 50 million years ago.

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Unkown User, "How Earth's Pacific plates collapsed", MachPrinciple, November 28, 2015, https://machprinciple.com/post/How-Earth-s-Pacific-plates-collapsed

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