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A new recipe for Large Igneous Provinces: just add BIF, then wait a couple of hundred million years

Here’s a new paper that proposes the biggest of big ideas: a 240 million year causal chain that runs from the Earth’s surface, to the core mantle boundary, and back again! Here’s how it supposedly goes: 1. Banded iron deposits … Continue reading

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