Find the first evidence of low levels of niobium in the geological record, it was thought, and you find the point when continental plates first appeared and started slamming into each other. However, ...

Water from both volcanic rocks and deep mantle melted Earth's crust 1.6 billion years ago. This long-lasting melting formed ...

“Our research shows that the chemical signatures we see in continental crust were created in Earth’s earliest period - regardless of how the planet’s surface was behaving,” says Professor Turner.

You probably wouldn't recognize the Earth if you could see it 225 million years ago ... divergent boundaries, where new crust is formed; convergent boundaries, where crust is consumed; collisional ...

“Our research shows that the chemical signatures we see in continental crust were created in Earth’s earliest period—regardless of how the planet’s surface was behaving,” said Turne ...

Earth's crust today has a surprisingly similar composition to the planet's first outer shell, or "protocrust," new research ...

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"Our research shows that the chemical signatures we see in the continental crust were created in Earth's earliest period—regardless of how the planet's surface was behaving," says Professor Turner.