Geology Bites: An Earth and Planetary Science Podcast
Oliver Strimpel
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By the end of the 1960s, plate tectonics had been widely accepted, but it rested on an untested assumption: that the plates are strong enough to move as rigid slabs. Tony Watts describes how, as a postdoc at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in the early 1970s, he helped measure that strength by treating the lithosphere like an elastic beam bending under a lo… Play episode
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