“That story that we’ve been telling for a long, long time—that processes like seafloor spreading and continental drift operate at timescales ... of intense volcanic activity at the end of the last Ice ...

The Atlantic Ocean has been widening for hundreds of millions of years, but its growth may have briefly gone into overdrive thanks to the melting of glaciers as the last Ice Age came to an end.

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"That story that we've been telling for a long, long time -- that processes like seafloor spreading and continental drift operate ... activity at the end of the last Ice Age, which has since ...