Earth’s continents emerged 500 million years EARLIER than thought
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Based on their results, the team concluded that weathering of continents first started some 3.7 billion years ago — 500 million years earlier than had been thought.
’That is a huge time period. It essentially has implications for the way that we think about how life evolved,’ Dr Roerdink said, explaining that while scientists usually think life started in deep sea, hydrothermal settings, the biosphere is complex.
’We don’t really know if it is possible that life could have developed at the same time on land, but then that land has to be there.’