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Movement of plate tectonics started probably 750 million years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI6SemRT2iY


Maybe the situation has changed recently, but as I understand there is no scholarly consensus on when plate tectonics started and it is the topic of active debate. For example Onset of Plate Tectonics (2011) https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1208766 says:

> The further back we look into the geological past, the more obscured the view, masked by an increasingly fragmentary geological record. This has resulted in a controversy on whether plate tectonics operated the same way, or even at all, during early Earth history.




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