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Tim Johnson, Associate Professor, Curtin University

What created the continents? New evidence points to giant asteroids

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Earth is the only planet we know of with continents, the giant landmasses that provide homes to humankind and most of Earth’s biomass.

However, we still don’t have firm answers to some basic questions about continents: how did they come to be, and why did they form where they did?

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