Earth's journey through the Milky Way may have had a profound impact on our planet's geology.
"As geologists, we normally think about processes internal to the Earth being really important for how our planet has evolved," Chris Kirkland, a geologist at Curtin University in Australia and lead author of the study describing the findings, said in a."But we can also think about the much larger scale and look at extraterrestrial processes and where we fit in the galactic environment.
Kirkland and his team found that over a long timescale, patterns of crust production corresponded with galactic years . These findings were further supported by examinations of oxygen isotopes, which revealed a similar pattern.
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