Scientists found new evidence that Earth’s crust is peeling underneath the Sierra Nevada in California. The process might be how the continents formed, they say.

Crust and lithospheric mantle—the thinnest and thickest layers of the Earth's lithosphere ... used to gain insight into the structure and properties of the lithosphere and the forces that ...

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