The reason that Archean protocontinents were small is that
A) Earth's interior was not hot enough during Archean to make much felsic crust.
B) Earth's interior was very hot during Archean and rifting was quite common.
C) the Archean crust was very thin and largely basaltic in composition.
D) the Archean crust was more quickly destroyed by erosion and subduction than later-formed crust.
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