Plate tectonics started over 4 billion years ago

Thursday, November 27, 2008 - 06:00 in Earth & Climate

A new picture of the early Earth is emerging, including the surprising finding that plate tectonics may have started more than 4 billion years ago - much earlier than scientists had believed, according to new research by UCLA geochemists reported 27 November in the journal Nature...

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