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These rocks are older than the pyramids and they’re hiding in Canada
For years, scientists have wondered if a certain stretch of rock in Canada could be home to the world’s oldest rocks, and now ...
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Earth’s oldest known material was born before Earth existed
Long before Earth formed, tiny mineral grains were already drifting through space, forged in the final breaths of dying stars ...
Researchers have discovered chemical fingerprints of Earth's earliest incarnation, preserved in ancient mantle rocks. A unique imbalance in potassium isotopes points to remnants of “proto Earth” ...
Rocks in Australia preserve evidence that plates in Earth’s crust were moving 3.5 billion years ago, a finding that pushes back the beginnings of plate tectonics by hundreds of millions of years.
In a first, researchers have discovered fragments of Earth's precursor that contain distinctive chemical fingerprints in ancient rocks from Greenland, Canada and Hawaii. When you purchase through ...
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