Snowball Earth defines periods of our planet's history when ice spanned the globe, even reaching the equator. The ...

the base had no choice but to melt. And voilà: TTGs were created, which then formed the Earth’s first continents. According to the scientists, the discovery of this standalone “intra-crustal ...

Crustal thickness has been suggested as a key ... the depleted and refractory mantle source beneath the SPA basin hinders partial melting to a large degree,” said XU. This work also provides ...