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This is an interesting subject but I didn't find the piece to be well written. Perhaps it's just me.

Maybe the entire purpose of the piece is to serve as a vehicle for this pun.

> scientists have now proposed a groundbreaking explanation.

I think they still could have served that pun with a better written article.

No, the article feels like it's not communicating the reason that this is potentially important very well. If I'm reading this right, the whole opening takeaway about the Atlantic ocean shrinking doesn't seem like the point here.

From what I gather in TFA, we haven't figured out how subduction zones start, and we're currently observing the beginning of one in progress, which is giving us the data to back up earlier theories for the first time. This fills an important gap in our understanding of plate tectonics.

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