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This image shows fractured and metamorphosed remains of ancient continental crust along the eastern shores of Hudson Bay, in the Canadian craton. These rocks originated from the remelting of basaltic rocks that first erupted during the Hadean era.
c. 4.5 Billion BCE: The Formation of Continental Crust – A Geological Journey

Explores the transformation from mafic basalts to felsic rocks in the Earth's crust, guided by Norman L. Bowen's 1928 discovery of Bowen's Reaction Series. It explains how this process led to the formation of Earth's [...]