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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.

The results also raise uncertainty about when plate tectonics started on Earth .

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