The Graveyard at the Center of the Earth

It's Patron Appreciation Month at Eons, and you're invited! To celebrate, join us for a livestream on March 27. Become a member at   / eons   at the Paleozoic level or above by March 31 and receive the very first Eons trading card! Plus, show your love for Eons and the Permian Era with our new t-shirt: https://complexly.info/Permianshirt Scientists have been trying to solve the mystery of why plate tectonics works the way it does for over a hundred years. And they might have just uncovered a key to cracking it. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Duane Westhoff, Morgan, Ruth Orr, Bart & Elke van Iersel - De Jong, Karen Farrell, Mark Talbott-Williams, Jonathan Rust, Irene Wood, Mary Tevington, Pope John XII, Aaditya Mehta, Gizmo, Marco Narajos, AllPizzasArePersonal, Stephen Patterson, Walter Ray-Dulany, Yu Mei, Alex Hackman, Jason Rostoker, Travis Bauer, Nomi Alchin, Lianne Lairmore, Collin Dutrow, Hillary Ryde-Collins, Albert Folsom, John H. Austin, Jr., Randall George, Kevin Lacson, Dan Caffee, Jeff Graham, Nick Ryhajlo If you'd like to support the channel, head over to   / eons   and pledge for some cool rewards! Want to follow Eons elsewhere on the internet? Facebook -   / eonsshow   Instagram -   / eonsshow   Bluesky - https://bsky.app/profile/pbseons.bsky... #Eons #platetectonics References: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y...