Cratons are thick and relatively cold, making them very durable during earth’s history. Continents, and their craton cores, ...

For billions of years, Earth's continents have remained remarkably stable, forming the foundation for mountains, ecosystems ...

"... a pivotal event in our planet's history." This is an Inside Science story. Earth's first continents may have emerged from the oceans roughly 750 million years ...

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Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents formed during the Archean time, more than 2.5 billion years ago. Their findings ...

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