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New model refutes leading theory on how Earth's continents formed

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New model refutes leading theory on how Earth 's continents formed.

University of Illinois Chicago's David Hernández Uribe used computer models to study the formation of magmas thought to hold clues to the origin of continents.

Instead, he found that the minerals could form through high pressure and temperatures associated with the melting of Earth 's thick primordial crust.

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