We are part of a research team that has confirmed the oldest known rocks on Earth are located in northern Québec.__ ...

The oldest terrestrial materials ever dated by scientists are extremely rare zircon minerals that were discovered in western ...

Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago, during the geological eon known as the Hadean. The name "Hadean" comes from the ...

The Hadean Eon, Earth's first geological period, remains shrouded in mystery due to scarce rock records. However, Québec's ...

At the time, the Earth's surface was hot enough to bake pizza, but rocks still solidified. Those in this area formed almost ...

The ancient history of Earth has always been hard to read. Most of the planet’s earliest crust has been lost, buried, or ...

Rocks older than 4.03 billion years could shed light on Earth's earliest geological history, but they're incredibly rare.

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Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...

In 2008 scientists reported that rocks in Canada were the world’s oldest. New data appear to confirm this contested claim ...

Geologists have long debated whether a stony formation in Canada contains the world’s oldest rocks – new measurements make a ...

Discover how scientists found and dated the oldest rocks on the planet, and why studying them can help explain how life on ...