“The growth of continents didn’t just reshape the surface of the Earth, it may have helped set the chemical conditions that made life possible in the first place.” The work, led by Dyck with Dr. Jon ...

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Computational modeling shows that plate tectonics weren't necessary for early continents. The formation of Earth's continents billions of years ago set the stage for life to thrive. But scientists ...

Dec. 2 (UPI) --Earth's earliest continents were fragile and destruction-prone, according to a new study published Wednesday in the journal Nature. Earth formed roughly 4.5 billion years ago, but the ...

The earth is a poor archivist. The rigid tectonic plates of its outer layers are continuously in motion, sliding over one another to swallow almost all records of the past, melting them into the ...

Long before forests, fish, or even single cells, Earth may have needed something as unglamorous as growing continents to make life possible. A study in Terra Nova argues that the planet’s earliest ...

The formation of Earth’s continents billions of years ago set the stage for life to thrive. But scientists disagree over how those land masses formed and if it was through geological processes we ...