While it's the reigning theory now, the road to acceptance was long and bumpy for plate tectonics, which describes how large portions of Earth's crust slide, grind, rise and sink ever so slowly across its sludgy mantle.
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The most disruptive in recent times was the 2010 eruption of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano which grounded flights across Europe for days because of fears ash could damage airplane engines