Home
FAQs
Pricing
Blog

Home
FAQs
Pricing
Blog

‌

‌

‌

Episode description

‌

Metacast: podcast app with transcripts

© 2025 Metacast Inc

PRODUCT

Metacast Premium FAQs Support Change Log Podcast Directory Terms of Service Privacy Policy

COMPANY

About us Blog Our podcasts Newsletter Join subreddit

PODCASTERS

Scientists Pin Down When Earth’s Crust Cracked, Then Came to Life - podcast episode cover

Scientists Pin Down When Earth’s Crust Cracked, Then Came to Life

Quanta Science Podcast

Jul 22, 2021•21 min•Transcript available on Metacast

--:--

--:--

Listen in podcast apps:

Episode description

New data indicating that Earth’s surface broke up about 3.2 billion years ago helps clarify how plate tectonics drove the evolution of complex life.

The post Scientists Pin Down When Earth’s Crust Cracked, Then Came to Life first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Scientists Pin Down When Earth’s Crust Cracked, Then Came to Life | Quanta Science Podcast - Listen or read transcript on Metacast