SOUTHBURY — Judith May (Priestley) Bookis of Southbury, passed away on July 24, 2023, with the devoted staff at Pomperaug Woods and all three children by her side.
What causes lava to gush from volcanoes in plumes of liquid fire or the ground to shake like the world is ending? Plate tectonics. What causes plate tectonics? Not so fast.
Force generated by the pull of the sun on the moon, rather than heat, may be responsible for the movement of the Earth's tectonic plates, researchers argue.
Earth is far from a solid mass of rock. The outer layer of our planet – known as the lithosphere – is made up of more than 20 tectonic plates; as these gargantuan slates glide about the face of the planet, we get the movement of continents, a