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The earliest evolution of our planet is difficult to reconstruct. Ancient rocks in Western Australia show an isotopic signature that links their formation with 4.3-billion-year-old crust.

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Figure 1: The Dresser Formation in Western Australia's Pilbara Craton consists of volcanics and chert–barite units.

M. VAN KRANENDONK

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  1. Stephen J. Mojzsis is in the Department of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado, 2200 Colorado Avenue, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0399, USA. mojzsis@colorado.edu,

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Mojzsis, S. Leftover lithosphere. Nature Geosci 3, 148–149 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo809

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