Giant Meteor Impacts Might Have Triggered Early Earth’s Plate Tectonics

A new study by an Australian-US team has found that a large impact that happened ca. 3.2 billion years ago could be what started Earth’s tectonics activity, which could be crucial to why Earth is able to support life.

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