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The earth's crust is lazy: geoscientist study

MINING.com Editor | April 03, 2013 | 8:27 pm Precious Metals Canada Gold 

The earth's crust likes to minimize its work when forming new fault lines, according to a recent study in the Journal of Structural Geology. The data suggest that the earth's crust behaves in accordance with "work minimization principles," an idea...

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