Impacts shaped Earth’s first continents
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Qian Yuan
(Department of Geology and Geophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA.)
Abstract
Heat from large impacts may have melted most of Earth’s earliest crust
Article Details
Journal
Science
Volume / Issue
Vol. 392, Issue 6805
Published
June 25, 2026
Pages
1347-1347
ISSN
0036-8075
Publisher
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Journal Info
Science
American Association for the Advancement of Science
ISSN: 0036-8075 Social Sciences
Authors (1)
Q
Qian Yuan
Department of Geology and Geophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA.
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