Earth's Internal Convection
by Tim Brown/science Photo Library
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Earth's Internal Convection
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Tim Brown/science Photo Library
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Photograph - Photograph
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Earth's internal convection. Diagram of a sectioned Earth, showing the convection (arrows) in the mantle that drives volcanic activity, crustal spreading, and the movement of the continents. The first continents arose where oceanic crust accumulated and thickened over areas of mantle downwelling (left). Stable continents first formed around 2.5 billion years ago, 2 billion years after the Earth formed. It would be another 2 billion years before complex marine and land life would evolve, with plate tectonics continually reforming the shape of the continents.
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October 20th, 2019
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