Hottest lava eruption linked to growth of first continents
Tuesday, June 24, 2014 - 05:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
(Phys.org) —A collaborative research team has discovered an important link between the eruption of Earth's hottest lavas, the location of some of the largest ore deposits and the emergence of the first land masses on the planet - the continents - more than 2500 million years ago.