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  "headline": "Plate Tectonics",
  "description": "Plate tectonics (theory accepted 1960s) explains Earth's surface dynamics: the lithosphere is broken into tectonic plates that move on the semi-fluid asthenosphere. Boundaries: divergent (pull apart, mid-ocean ridges), convergent (collide, mountains/trenches), transform (slide past, San Andreas Fault). Drives earthquakes, volcanoes, mountain formation.",
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