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Ancient rocks suggest water has shaped earth for 3.1 billion years

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Ancient rocks suggest water has shaped earth for 3.1 billion years
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Major clues to the origins of our planet—and life itself—are locked inside some three billion-year-old volcanic rocks from Western Australia. These ancient rocks show that water was likely already shaping Earth’s interior and driving volcanic activity over three billion years ago. 



The findings published today in the journal Nature Communications suggest that Earth was already running a version of the water-recycling processes that shape our planet today, even though our home planet was

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