The Tectonic Plate Under The Pacific Ocean Is Being Torn Apart, Scientists RevealThe Tectonic Plate Under The Pacific Ocean Is Being Torn Apart, Scientists Reveal - ScienceAlert

While it's the reigning theory now, the road to acceptance was long and bumpy for plate tectonics, which describes how large portions of Earth's crust slide, grind, rise and sink ever so slowly across its sludgy mantle.