Strange rock formations beneath the Pacific Ocean could change our understanding of the early Earth
- Written by: Simon Lamb, Associate Professor in Geophysics, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
NASA, CC BY-SAOur world may seem fragile, but Earth has been around for a very long time. If we ventured far back into the past, would we reach a time when it looked fundamentally different?
The answer lies in some of the earliest extensive relics of Earth’s surface, found in a remote corner of southern Africa’s highveld – a...