Continents Rose Above Oceans 3 Billion Years Ago

Friday, June 26, 2015 - 11:00 in Earth & Climate

The continents may have first risen high above the oceans of the world about 3 billion years ago, researchers say. That's about a billion years earlier than geoscientists had suspected for the emergence of a good chunk of the continents.

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