Scientists find water was fueling volcanoes 3 billion years ago

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Sep 12, 2026, 11:14 pm96 ptsTrending
Ancient rocks from Western Australia suggest water was reaching deep inside Earth more than three billion years ago, long before modern plate tectonics may have fully developed. Researchers propose that water-rich pieces of crust periodically sank into the mantle through a process they call “dripduction.”…

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