| Although the concept is fatally flawed, the idea of a dynamic Earth helped usher in the concept of plate tectonics. |
| Scientists were surprised by this finding because andesites on Earth are typically created by processes associated with plate tectonics. |
| Like a miniature version of Earth's plate tectonics, thin slabs of basalt crust jostle about, driven by the heat below. |
| The scientists working on this project say the discovery could change theories on plate tectonics dramatically. |
| He was instrumental in conducting research that led to the development of crustal-plate motion concepts and the theory of plate tectonics. |
| In the 1960s a conceptual revolution, the theory of plate tectonics, changed the way earth scientists thought. |
