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A world-shifting moment (literally)

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A world-shifting moment (literally)




Alec Brenner (left) and Roger Fu.Veasey Conway/Harvard Staff Photographer





Kermit Pattison

Harvard Staff Writer 




March 31, 2026


6 min read




Geoscientists track when Earth went from ‘just another planet’ to ‘something very special’






The history of the Earth is written on the great tablets of tectonic plates.



The motions of plates shaped land mass

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