So Jonathan O’Neil and his team turned to samarium and neodymium isotopes – elements better suited for this kind ... it would make the Nuvvuagittuq belt the oldest known chunk of Earth’s crust, edging ...

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Researchers mapped a pulsing mantle plume under Afar that channels molten rock upward, stretching Africa’s crust until it cracks and an ocean basin begins.

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