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Plate Tectonics provides a single unifying theory for understanding the dynamics of earth as everything about earth is mostly related either directly or indirectly to it (Condie 1998; Cox and Hart 1986; Hamblin and Christiansen 2003; Kearey et al. 2009). Few decades ago, it was believed that continents and ocean basins were fixed and permanent features and that the Theory of Continental Drift was just a radical idea (Hallam 1973).
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Jain, S. (2014). Plate Tectonics. In: Fundamentals of Physical Geology. Springer Geology. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1539-4_14
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