What Scientists Discovered Beneath Western Australia SHOCKED Everyone

More than 3.1 billion years ago, volcanoes were already erupting across what is now Western Australia — but the process feeding them may have been very different from modern plate tectonics.

In this DiscoverTube investigation, we explore ancient volcanic rocks from the Pilbara Craton that preserve evidence of water traveling deep into Earth’s mantle, triggering melting and helping generate magma.

The research points to a process called dripduction — a possible early form of crustal recycling that may have helped Earth move water underground long before modern tectonic plates fully developed.

These rocks are billions of years old.

But they may still be changing how scientists understand the early Earth.

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