In northern China, scientists have found what may be the 2 billion-year-old birthmarks of Earth's first supercontinent
- Written by Huaiyu Yuan, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Macquarie University
The present landscape near Dongshen, China.Wan et al., Author providedFar beneath the city of Dongshen in northern China, we have discovered what may be the 2 billion-year-old birthmarks of Earth’s first supercontinent.
An ancient dipping structure in the planet’s crust appears to be a trace of an early collision between two...





