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  2. How the Earth Was Made - Wikipedia

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    How the Earth Was Made is a documentary television series produced by Pioneer Productions for the History Channel.It began as a two-hour special exploring the geological history of Earth, airing on December 16, 2007.

  3. History of Earth - Wikipedia

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    Earth formed in this manner about 4.54 billion years ago (with an uncertainty of 1%) [25] [26] [4] and was largely completed within 10–20 million years. [27] In June 2023, scientists reported evidence that the planet Earth may have formed in just three million years, much faster than the 10−100 million years thought earlier.

  4. Geological history of Earth - Wikipedia

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    Earth formed about 4.54 billion years ago by accretion from the solar nebula, a disk-shaped mass of dust and gas left over from the formation of the Sun, which also created the rest of the Solar System. Initially, Earth was molten due to extreme volcanism and frequent collisions with other bodies.

  5. Geophysicists just debunked a key assumption about how Earth ...

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    Amasia Supercontinent: Earth's Geologic Past Shapes Our Understanding Of Future Before it split into the continents we know today, Earth was home to just a single landmass, or "supercontinent ...

  6. Age of Earth - Wikipedia

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    In 1862, the physicist William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin published calculations that fixed the age of Earth at between 20 million and 400 million years. [19] [20] He assumed that Earth had formed as a completely molten object, and determined the amount of time it would take for the near-surface temperature gradient to decrease to its present value.

  7. Early Earth - Wikipedia

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    According to evidence from radiometric dating and other sources, Earth formed about 4.54 billion years ago. [7] [8] [9] The current dominant theory of planet formation suggests that planets such as Earth form in about 50 to 100 million years but more recently proposed alternative processes and timescales have stimulated ongoing debate in the planetary science community. [10]

  8. History of geology - Wikipedia

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    Due to the strength of Christian beliefs during the 17th century, the theory of the origin of the Earth that was most widely accepted was A New Theory of the Earth published in 1696, by William Whiston. [9] Whiston used Christian reasoning to "prove" that the Great Flood had occurred and that the flood had formed the rock strata of the Earth.

  9. The science behind how the northern lights are formed - AOL

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    Whether or not you've seen them in Alaska or Greenland, the spectacular aurora borealis — or, the northern lights — are a mystical, fascinating sight.