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• Plate Tectonics: How the Continents Move and Why It Explains Everything
  Mountains, earthquakes, volcanoes, the shape of coastlines, even the distribution of oil and ancient fossils — one theory accounts for all of it: the broken, drifting shell of the Earth. Here is how geologists figured it out, and how slow a revolution of ten centimetres a year really is.
• How Volcanoes Form and Why They Erupt
  Most of the world's volcanoes sit in two great belts, and where they erupt tells you almost everything about the plate tectonics underneath. Here is where magma comes from, why some volcanoes ooze and others explode, and how the map of eruption mirrors the map of plates.