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Earth's crust is peeling away under California

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A new study finds that the crust beneath the Sierra Nevada mountains is peeling away.

The process, called lithospheric foundering, may be how continents first formed.

The same process might be happening elsewhere in the world, researcher Vera Schulte-Pelkum says.

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