A scientist recently proposed a new idea: the Earth Plate movement began no later than 3 5 billion years ago  He reasoned that plate tectonics must transform the natural dark mafic rocks into light-colored felsic rocks  And by 3
The explanation that felsic rocks account for a much higher proportion of the natural world than mafic rocks seems to be plate tectonics alone, but early plate tectonic movements are likely to have been intermittent and localized.
5 billion years ago, the earth already had light-colored felsic rocks