Chicken or egg? Recipes for creating Earth’s continental crust
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Roberts N. (2024). Chicken or egg? Recipes for creating Earth’s continental crust. The Innovation Geoscience 2(3): 100091. https://doi.org/10.59717/j.xinn-geo.2024.100091
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Figure 1.
Two contrasting models for creating stable and emergent continental crust
