Archive for May, 2021

WFS News: Earth’s oldest minerals date onset of plate tectonics to 3.6 billion years ago

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Scientists led by Michael Ackerson, a research geologist at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, provide new evidence that modern plate tectonics, a defining feature of Earth and its unique ability to support life, emerged roughly 3.6 billion years ago. Earth is the only planet known to […]