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Strange rock formations beneath the Pacific Ocean could change our understanding of the early Earth

Beautiful view of the Earth from space

The Conversation

By Simon Lamb, Cornel de Ronde

March 11, 2024

Our world may seem fragile, but Earth has been around for a very long time. If we ventured far back into the past, would we reach a time when it looked fundamentally different?

The answer lies in some of the earliest extensive relics of Earth’s surface, found in a remote corner of southern Africa’s highveld – a region known to geologists as the Barberton Greenstone Belt.

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