3.7-Billion-Year-Old Rocks in Australia Are Rewriting the Story of Earth’s First Continents

3.7-Billion-Year-Old Rocks in Australia Are Rewriting the Story of Earth’s First Continents

Ancient Australian rocks suggest Earth’s continents formed later than expected and share a common origin with the Moon.

Australia's oldest rocks rewrite history: Earth and Moon separated at birth (and the continents were late arrivals) - Economic Scenarios

Geology can sometimes resemble forensic accounting. You dig through dusty archives, check the records, and suddenly realize the dates don't match and someone moved the capital much later than officially stated. A recent study, conducted by the University of Western Australia and published in Nature Communications , did exactly that: it took hold of Earth's chemical ledger and discovered that our planetary history needs to be rewritten. We're not…