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Geologists suggest early continents formed through mantle plumes, not plate collisions
Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents ...
Scientists Rewrite the Story of Earth’s First Continents With a Fiery New Twist
New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...
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Earth may have always held the key ingredients for life
Ancient oceans with phosphorus-rich waters may have supported some of Earth’s earliest microbial life, according to a new ...
HKU: Early Continents Shaped by Mantle Plumes, Not Plates
An illustration depicting the formation of TTGs in a two-stage mantle plume-sagduction model.Image credit: Adapted from Zhao, ...
A Fragment of Earth’s Original Crust Still Exists—and It’s Buried in Canada
Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...
The oldest rocks on Earth are more than four billion years old
Rocks from the Hadean Eon, the first period in the geological timescale, have been dated in Québec. These are some of the ...
Oldest Rock On Earth Confirmed To Be Over 4 Billion Years Old
Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago, during the geological eon known as the Hadean. The name "Hadean" comes from the ...
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Scientists Uncover a Groundbreaking New Origin for Earth’s First Continents
New research has dramatically reshaped our understanding of Earth’s early geological history, overturning traditional beliefs ...
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Earth's mantle chemistry has remained stable for billions of years, according to scientists
They reveal that the chemical composition of the deep mantle has remained almost intact since the Earth's formation 4.5 ...
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Earth's Earliest Climate | Learn Science at Scitable - Nature
What was Earth like in its youth? Explosive, hot, and unstable? Or cool and in control? Sedimentary rocks from the Archean Eon hint at something in between.