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Earth's First Crust May Have Looked Surprisingly Like The One We Have Today


Geologists have made certain assumptions about how the crust making up our planet's earliest surface formed, but a new study has found that Earth's very first protocrust was surprisingly similar to the shell of solid rock in place today.

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