Researchers discover Earth's first crust, formed 4.5 billion years ago, had chemical ...
Scientists have long thought that tectonic plates needed to dive beneath each other to create the chemical fingerprint we see ...
New Study Reveals Chemical Secret Of Earth's 4.5 Years Billion Crust
Earth is the only known planet which has plate tectonics today. The constant movement of these giant slabs of rock over the ...
1 trillion species, 3 billion years: AI finds ancient bacteria used oxygen long before ...
The planet Earth thawed approximately 4.5 billion years ago. The Moon was created when a Mars-sized object crashed. If there ...
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New research reveals chemical secrets of Earth’s crust 4.5 billion years ago
In a new paper published in Nature today, colleagues and I reveal secrets of Earth’s crust 4.5 billion years ago. In the process, we also provide a new way to approach one of the biggest ...
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New Research Reveals Chemical Secrets Of Earth's Crust 4.5 Billion Years Ago
In a new paper published in Nature today, colleagues and I reveal secrets of Earth's crust 4.5 billion years ago. In the process, we also provide a new way to approach one of the biggest enduring ...
Earth’s oceans weren’t always blue, scientists say
But while lifeless during that time, the planet was already covered by vast oceans dotted with hydrothermal vent systems that ...
Earth’s First Crust Was Continental – Long Before Plate Tectonics Began
New research suggests that Earth's first crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, already carried the chemical traits we associate with modern continents. This means the telltale fingerprints of ...
All Life on Earth Comes From One Single Ancestor. And It's So Much Older Than We Thought.
Life on Earth had to begin somewhere, and scientists think that “somewhere” is LUCA—or the Last Universal Common Ancestor.