Meteorites may have delayed continent formation by 500 million years
Simulations suggest that the initial meteorite bombardment kept the Earth's crust too hot.
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The fact
The early Earth, unstable, could only form its continents after this 500-million-year delay.
This hypothesis sheds light on the early geological stages of our planet.
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