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The curiosity and spirit of exploration in understanding the origins of the Earth and life is the foundation of modern science, and this has never changed from ancient Greek civilization, the Renaissance, to the Industrial Revolution. Looking back at the development of geosciences in the twentieth century, we realized that it was the emergence of the theory of plate tectonics that first reveale…