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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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.

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.

Therefore, the formation of secondary minerals can hinder the subsequent migration of hydrocarbons from sedimentary rocks," adds the scientist. The data obtained can be used in assessing the ...

But unlike Earth, where a carbon cycle that includes minerals, volcanoes, ... “Our place in the universe is borne out in the study of these 3.5-billion-year-old rocks. ...