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Earth's first continents may trace back to subduction 3.5 billion years ago
- May 11, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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An international team of researchers' analysis of minerals from the Pilbara region of Western Australia has given new insight into how ancient continents on Earth formed as far back as 3.5 billion years ago. Professor Tony Kemp, from The University of Western Australia's School of Earth and Oceans, was a co-author of the study published in Science Advances, which was led by researchers at Nanjing University in China.
Originally published at Phys.org