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HKU Geologists Suggest Early Continents Formed Through Mantle Plumes, Not Plate Collisions
July 03, 2025
HONG KONG, July 3 (TNSjou) -- The University of Hong Kong issued the following news release:

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HKU Geologists Suggest Early Continents Formed through Mantle Plumes, Not Plate Collisions

Geologists from The University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how the Earth's early continents formed during the Archean time, more than 2.5 billion years ago. Their findings, recently published in Science Advances, suggest that early c . . .

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