Continent Origins: Study Challenges Current Beliefs.

A new study has suggested that the current theory of how the Earth's continents were formed may be incorrect. The study looked at the crystallisation of the mineral garnet, which was proposed in 2018 as an explanation for the formation of the Earth's surface. However, the researchers found that the garnets did not take enough unoxidised iron to account for the make-up present in the Earth, meaning that the garnet crystallisation model is an unlikely explanation for why magmas from continental arc volcanoes are oxidised and iron depleted. Further research is needed to understand what is happening in this mysterious process.