| The scientists working on this project say the discovery could change theories on plate tectonics dramatically. |
| Scientists were surprised by this finding because andesites on Earth are typically created by processes associated with plate tectonics. |
| Must we reject the theory of plate tectonics because the movement of the earth's crust cannot be reproduced? |
| In plate tectonics, fragments of crust move independently along the surface of the viscous mantle. |
| The discovery of Earth's stripes, in the 1960s, led geologists to accept the theory of plate tectonics. |
| In the 1960s a conceptual revolution, the theory of plate tectonics, changed the way earth scientists thought. |
