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The Earth's initial rock cycle began with primordial basaltic crust

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Geological evidence and experimental models widely support the consensus that Earth's earliest crust was predominantly basaltic, serving as the protocrust from which later continental formations evolved.

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The retrieved papers consistently describe early Earth and Hadean crustal models as being composed of basaltic material or mafic protocrusts that later underwent partial melting to form tonalite-trondhjemite-granodiorite (TTG) suites and continental crust. None of the papers refute this foundational geological consensus.

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Deep formation of Earth’s earliest continental crust consistent with subduction
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A. Hastie, S. Law, G. Bromiley, J. Fitton, S. Harley, D. Muir. Deep formation of Earth’s earliest continental crust consistent with subduction. 2023. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-023-01249-5

Paper notes that Earth's outer layer around four billion years ago is thought to have been composed mostly of a basaltic crust.

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Dominance of felsic continental crust on Earth after 3 billion years ago is recorded by vanadium isotopes
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S. Tian, Xin Ding, Yuhan Qi, Fei Wu, Yue Cai, R. Gaschnig, Zicong Xiao, Weixin Lv, R. Rudnick, F. Huang. Dominance of felsic continental crust on Earth after 3 billion years ago is recorded by vanadium isotopes. 2023. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2220563120

Paper states that Earth's earliest crust may have been basaltic by analogy with ancient crusts of other terrestrial planets.

Interstep compatibility of a model for the prebiotic synthesis of RNA consistent with Hadean natural history.
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Hirakawa Y, Kim HJ, Furukawa Y, Abraham C, Peng TW, Biondi E, Benner SA. Interstep compatibility of a model for the prebiotic synthesis of RNA consistent with Hadean natural history.. 2025. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2516418122

Paper describes geological environments constrained by basalt as part of Hadean natural history.

Subduction origin of the Nb anomaly in Earth’s oldest continents
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S. Law, A. Hastie. Subduction origin of the Nb anomaly in Earth’s oldest continents. 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egaf060

Paper discusses how Earth's oldest continental crust formed through partial melting of thick Hadean basaltic crust.

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first checked02 Aug 2026
judged → SUPPORTED · 8502 Aug 2026
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