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

A belt of volcanic rock along the eastern shore of Hudson Bay in Canada’s Quebec province has been confirmed as the oldest ...

Places such as Purgatory Chasm and Millstone Hill, in Worcester's Green Hill Park, bear witness to the work of the glaciers.

Metamorphic rock is that which has been transformed by heat, pressure or other natural forces. Instead, for the new study, O’Neil turned to the rare earth element samarium, which decays into the ...

Sedimentary rock is comprised of sediment, as the name suggests. Over time, tiny minerals, sand, rocks, and debris layer on ...

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Paleontologist and Geologist Dr. Ken Lacovara joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about fossils. Can we ...

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.