Ancient rocks suggest water has shaped earth for 3.1 billion years
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Geologists studying 3.6-to-2.8-billion-year-old volcanic rocks from Western Australia's Pilbara Craton published findings in Nature Communications demonstrating that Earth's water recycling through plate tectonics operated at least 3.1 billion years ago, advancing understanding of early planetary processes and the conditions enabling life.
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