It means continental crust formation may have been a part of the original process of layer formation on Earth, not something that came after. The idea is backed up by the behavior of other siderophile ...

With a computer rendering, he helped scientists understand that the earth, with its shifting tectonic plates, is “an extraordinary living being” that is “continuously changing.” ...

Water from both volcanic rocks and deep mantle melted Earth's crust 1.6 billion years ago. This long-lasting melting formed ...

Chemical clues to formation The initial results from the model showed that under the reducing conditions ... “Our research shows that the chemical signatures we see in continental crust were created ...

Lithospheric dripping occurs when the underside of Earth's rocky crust is heated to a certain temperature. As the rock melts, a drop starts to form, eventually becoming weighty enough to break off and ...

Remnants of a liquid layer of magma near Earth's core, formed in the first few hundred million years of the planet's history, ...

The initial results from the model showed that under the reducing ... the chemical signatures we see in the continental crust were created in Earth's earliest period—regardless of how the ...