Tag: isotope anomalies
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First Evidence of Proto Earth: 4.5-Billion-Year-Old Materials Unearthed by Geologists
New Clues from the Deep Past: Proto Earth Resurfaces In a groundbreaking study published in Nature Geoscience, researchers from MIT and collaborating institutions report the most compelling evidence yet of proto Earth materials. These remnants, dating back roughly 4.5 billion years, predate the giant collision that shaped the Earth as we know it today. The…
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Proto Earth Unearthed: First Evidence of 4.5-Billion-Year-Old Building Blocks
Unveiling the Ancient Blueprint of Earth Geologists and planetary scientists have moved a major step closer to understanding Earth’s origins. In a study published in Nature Geosciences, researchers from MIT and international partners report the first direct evidence of materials from the planet’s proto Earth—the primordial world that formed roughly 4.5 billion years ago before…