Using geodynamic numerical modeling based on the physical properties of the Earth, the researchers showed that small-scale continental/plate fragments (microcontinents) drifting over the oceans are being fragmented (expanding) by enormous tectonic forces (slice pulling force) long before predicted. 

İTÜ Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences faculty members Prof. Dr. Gültekin Topuz and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Oğuz Hakan Göğüş together with Prof. Dr. Russell Pysklywec and Ph.D. student Erkan Gün from University of Toronto proposed a new hypothesis about the tectonic movements and deformation processes of the oceans and continents that have been going on for millions of years. The research results were published in Nature Geoscience, one of the most prestigious journals of geosciences, in May.

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