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Did embryonic plate tectonics give birth to the continents?

03 Oct 2017 Patrick Sugden 
Illustration of Earth's interior
(Courtesy: iStock/Anotherhood)
An early form of plate tectonics on a hotter young Earth may have been responsible for the initial

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Patrick Sugden is a PhD student contributor to Physics World. Patrick is studying geochemistry at the University of Leeds. Find out more about our student contributor networks
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