"This early crust was reshaped and made richer ... self-sustaining pattern. "This discovery completely changes our understanding of Earth's earliest geological processes," says Professor Turner.

It’s long been thought that tectonic plates needed to dive beneath each other to create the chemical fingerprint we see in ...

Researchers have made a new discovery that changes our understanding of Earth’s early geological history, challenging beliefs about how our continents formed and when plate tectonics began. A study ...

Researchers have made a breakthrough discovery that changes our understanding of Earth's early geological history, ...

The study also provides a new approach to solving one of the biggest enduring scientific mysteries: when did plate tectonics ...

This discovery has major implications for how ... Further modelling of the geodynamics of Earth’s early crust is needed to better understand when it became unstable and started to subduct.