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

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

Studies of these zircon minerals has given us clues about the Hadean environment, and the formation and evolution of Earth’s ...

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

Researchers have published a study that outlines the discovery of three new types of minerals never before catalogued on ...

By confirming the age of these rocks, and that they might just be the oldest rocks on Earth, we’re finally opening the door ...

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

The scientific study of rocks is known as geology. There are three types of rocks, sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous. Rocks are made up of minerals, while minerals are made up of chemicals ...

Scientists agreed the rocky outcrops in a remote part of Quebec, Canada, were ancient. But were they really Earth’s oldest?

Microscopical Physiography of the Rock-making Minerals: an Aid to the Microscopical Study of Rocks. By H. Rosenbusch. Translated and Abridged for use in Schools and Colleges by Joseph P.Iddings.

If the new age of these Canadian rocks is solid, they would be the first and only ones known to have survived Earth’s earliest, tumultuous time.

The mineral scottyite was named after Michael Scott. ... "Gender doesn't pertain to how rocks and minerals form. ... What's in a mineral name? Not very many women, study finds (2024 ...