Rocks located in the Acasta Gneiss Complex in northern Canada have been dated to 4 billion years ago, making them the oldest definitively dated rocks, according to the educational platform Open ...

"Given how rare such evidence is due to [Earth's] geological recycling processes, this is a major breakthrough in ...

Relative dating puts geologic events in chronological ... than the one below it (Figures 1 and 2). Accordingly, the oldest rocks in a sequence are at the bottom and the youngest rocks are at ...

Scientists have discovered the world’s oldest known meteorite impact crater. Located in Western Australia, the crater has ...

The world’s oldest dated rune stone, a landmark discovery revealed in 2023, is just one piece of a larger, nearly 2,000-year-old slab, new research has found. Now, scientists in Norway are ...

When these tools were dated, they were found to be more than three million years old. This made them among the oldest manufactured ... were carving weapons from rocks and bones, it may have ...

The team dated the crater to 3.5 billion years ago ... how did the first continents—our planet’s oldest rocks—form more than three billion years ago? While many theories involve geological ...

Relative dating puts geologic events in chronological ... than the one below it (Figures 1 and 2). Accordingly, the oldest rocks in a sequence are at the bottom and the youngest rocks are at ...