{"id":210928,"date":"2025-04-09T03:06:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T08:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/earths-first-crust-may-have-looked-surprisingly-like-the-one-we-have-today"},"modified":"2025-04-09T03:06:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T08:06:30","slug":"earths-first-crust-may-have-looked-surprisingly-like-the-one-we-have-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/earths-first-crust-may-have-looked-surprisingly-like-the-one-we-have-today","title":{"rendered":"Earth\u2019s First Crust May Have Looked Surprisingly Like The One We Have Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/earths-first-crust-may-have-looked-surprisingly-like-the-one-we-have-today.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Geologists have made certain assumptions about how the crust making up our planet\u2019s earliest surface formed, but a new study has found that Earth\u2019s very first protocrust was surprisingly similar to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/earths-crust-is-dripping-under-midwest-us-scientists-discover\">the shell of solid rock in place today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It may mean a complete rethink of how Earth\u2019s coat transitioned from a skin of boiling magma to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/watch-1-billion-years-of-shifting-tectonic-plates-in-40-mesmerizing-seconds\">shifting armor of tectonic plates<\/a> we now live on, according to the international team of researchers behind the study.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cScientists have long thought that tectonic plates needed to dive beneath each other to create the chemical fingerprint we see in continents,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/lighthouse.mq.edu.au\/article\/april-2025\/earths-first-crust-composition-discovery-rewrites-geological-timeline\">says<\/a> geochemist Simon Turner, from Macquarie University in Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geologists have made certain assumptions about how the crust making up our planet\u2019s earliest surface formed, but a new study has found that Earth\u2019s very first protocrust was surprisingly similar to the shell of solid rock in place today. It may mean a complete rethink of how Earth\u2019s coat transitioned from a skin of boiling [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}