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When Continents Became Stable
Today we really go into the weeds.
Jesse and a colleague just published a paper in the journal Nature that proposes a new model for how continents became stable. Stable continents have all the granite at the surface, which contains all the heat producing elements like U and Th and K - elements that decay away.
Today, we discuss that paper in detail, and along the way learn a bit about the early Earth, what we know and don't know!
Here is a link to the paper, which is open access and can be downloaded by anyone without paying.
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