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Earliest Plate Motions Detected

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Brenner explains how contrasting paleomagnetic readings from Australia’s Pilbara and South Africa’s Kaapvaal cratons imply relative motion 3.48 billion years ago, requiring a plate boundary—pushing back evidence for plate motions by a billion years.

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