The Changing Face of the Earth Throughout the Ages
2021
The face of the Earth has changed dramatically over the last 4.5 billion years. The growth and emergence of the continental crust transformed a largely ocean-covered planet in its early days into a planet with land masses. Under the action of mantle dynamics, the first continental crusts merged with island arcs to constitute the first continents at the end of the Archean and the Paleoproterozoic.
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