Modern continental rocks carry chemical signatures from the very start of our planet's history, challenging current theories about plate tectonics.

Scientists discovered Earth's first crust had continental chemical signatures. This challenges beliefs about when these ...

The Hadean protocrust formation and early plate tectonics challenged by new study, questioning geological assumptions.

Geologists have made certain assumptions about how the crust making up our planet's earliest surface formed, but a new study ...

New research suggests that Earth's first crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, already carried the chemical traits we ...

Rethinking early Earth formation For decades ... showed the protocrust – Earth’s earliest crust formed during the Hadean eon (4.5-4.0 billion years ago) – would naturally develop the ...

Earth’s earliest crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, has long been thought to have lacked the complex chemical features ...

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

Scientists have long thought that tectonic plates needed to dive beneath each other to create the chemical fingerprint we see ...

Together with collaborators across six universities, he created mathematical models simulating early Earth ... the protocrust—Earth's earliest crust formed during the Hadean eon (4.5–4.0 ...