A compilation of more than 300,000 rock compositions provides crucial input into a 100-year-old debate on how the continental crust formed, and provides new constraints for theories of continental-crust development. See Article p.301
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Till, C. Big geochemistry. Nature 523, 293–294 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/523293a
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