This effect might be enhanced in plates without a very rigid continental plate, such as Central America as opposed to the Cascades.

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It is hard to imagine how faults on one continental plate might communicate with those on another that is hundreds of kilometres away.

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Following approvals, Continental will receive its testing license and red license plate featuring an infinity sign to represent the car of the future.

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After gorging on bear meat, the expedition's scientists bring back evidence that helps prove the controversial theory of continental drift, which gives rise in due course to the science of plate tectonics, which explains why it was that Krakatoa blew itself up--and will do so again, in eons hence.

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Plate tectonics, the formation of faults and the moving of the continental crust over a molten interior, is a characteristic unique to Earth and it meant that minerals evolved far beyond those on any other planet in the Solar System.

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