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A tectonic plate may have split apart, pulling Europe toward Canada
In a recent news article (published on 6 May 2019), Stephen Johnson reports that we may be seeing evidence of the birth of a subduction zone (for the non-geologists a subduction zone is where one tectonic plate is being driven under another). Since 1969, some…