Geologists suggest early continents formed through mantle plumes, not plate collisions

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Jul 3, 2025, 10:16 am120 pts
Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents formed during the Archean time, more than 2.5 billion years ago. Their findings, recently published in Science Advances, suggest that early continental crust likely formed through deep Earth…

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