Study finds evidence that giant meteorite impacts created the continents

Study finds evidence that giant meteorite impacts created the continents (PA)

Scientists say they have found the strongest evidence yet that the continents were formed by giant meteorite impacts that happened during the first billion years of Earth’s four-and-a-half-billion-year history.

Researchers say the idea that the continents originally formed at sites of these collisions had been around for decades, but until now there was little solid evidence to support the theory.