How plate tectonics has maintained the Earth’s “Golden Rites” climate
Tectonic processes release carbon into the atmosphere at oceanic ridges, where two plates move away from each other, allowing magma to rise to the surface and create a new oceanic crust. At the same time, in the ocean trenches, where two plates converge, the plates are thrown down and recycled back to the deep Earth. …
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