{"id":8131,"date":"2025-04-04T10:04:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T08:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/?p=8131"},"modified":"2025-04-18T10:11:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T08:11:22","slug":"earths-first-crust-was-continental-long-before-plate-tectonics-began","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/en\/earths-first-crust-was-continental-long-before-plate-tectonics-began\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth\u2019s First Crust Was Continental \u2013 Long Before Plate Tectonics Began"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/images\/Modern-Continental-Rock-Sample-777x518.jpg\" width=\"777\" height=\"518\" \/>A new discovery is reshaping how scientists understand the early history of Earth, especially how continents formed and when plate tectonics began. In a study published in\u00a0<em>Nature<\/em>\u00a0on April 2, researchers found that Earth\u2019s first crust, formed around 4.5 billion years ago, already had chemical characteristics similar to today\u2019s continental crust.<\/p>\n<p>This means the unique chemical signature found in modern continents may have been present from the very beginning of Earth\u2019s history. The study was led by Professor Emeritus Simon Turner from Macquarie University\u2019s Faculty of Science and Engineering, alongside researchers from institutions in Australia, the UK, and France.<\/p>\n<p>Keep on reading on <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/earths-first-crust-was-continental-long-before-plate-tectonics-began\/\">SciTechDaily<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new discovery is reshaping how scientists understand the early history of Earth, especially how continents formed and when plate tectonics began. In a study published in\u00a0Nature\u00a0on April 2, researchers found that Earth\u2019s first crust, formed around 4.5 billion years ago, already had chemical characteristics similar to today\u2019s continental crust. This means the unique chemical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,46],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8131"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8131"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8134,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8131\/revisions\/8134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}