... grown.Copyright 1994 Scientific American, Inc.MARCH 1994 $3.95 In the deep Atlantic, Nautile hunts for cluesto the forces that make continents drift. Visiting yourself in the past. Rewriting the genes.Information ... of the original miner-als in the peridotite. Some minerals,such as clinopyroxene, melt more easi-ly than do others and hence rapidly de-crease in abundance during the melt-ing. Moreover, the ... FULLERCopyright 1994 Scientific American, Inc.Mayewski hopes better insight into the inconstant nature of the sun willenable researchers to determine whether the present, human-generated increas-es in...