New Models of Early Earth (IMAGE)

University of Adelaide

New Models of Early Earth

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These are models for the distribution of crustal thickness in early Earth. The crust in the prevailing paradigm is mostly oceanic, with some thin continental crust. The new model predicts a thicker and greater continental portion that was not preserved.

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Derrick Hasterok

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