Two 'monsters' emerged from the ground that gave birth to humans?

Life on Earth might not have evolved to advanced species like us if it weren't for the appearance of two "monsters" namely Nuna Super Mountain and Transgondwana Super Mountain.

Newly published research from the Australian National University and Queensland University of Technology shows that super mountains - mountain ranges many times greater than the most majestic mountain ranges of modern times - have appeared twice on the planet. The earth.

The first is Super Mountain Nuna, which appeared between 2 and 1.8 billion years ago, during the process of the world's land gradually merging into the supercontinent Nuna. This super mountain coincides with the emergence of complex large cells, when life on Earth began to diversify after billions of years of "stagnation" in the form of single-celled bacteria.

The ancient super mountain is a form of "monster" mountain created by the process of supercontinent fusion, 3-4 times the size of the modern Himalayas.

According to Sci-News, Super Mountain Nuna is estimated to be 3-4 times the size of the modern Himalayas.

The second is the Transgondwana Supermountain, which formed during the merger of the supercontinent Gondwana, about 650 to 500 million years ago. This period also includes the appearance of the first large animals (575 million years ago) and the Cambrian "biological boom" 45 million years later.

Professor Jochen Brocks from the Australian National University, who was part of the research team, said they found the supermounts by following clues as traces of zircon and lutetium content - a combination of the mineral and rare earth elements found only in the "roots" of high mountains, still lurking in the earth's soil in modern times.

The work, just published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, also shows that when these super mountains are eroded, they will supply essential nutrients such as phosphorus and iron to the oceans, increasing biological cycles and accelerating progress. chemical. In addition, the process of mountain tectonics also increases the concentration of oxygen in the atmosphere.