Archive for September 19th, 2013

Birth of Earth’s Continents: New Research Points to Crust Stacking, Rather Than Upwelling of Hot Material

New research led by a University of Calgary geophysicist provides strong evidence against continent formation above a hot mantle plume, similar to an environment that presently exists beneath the Hawaiian Islands. The analysis, published this month in Nature Geoscience, indicates that the nuclei of Earth’s continents formed as a byproduct of mountain-building processes, by stacking […]